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Robert Penn Warren Photos



Robert Penn Warren in his library at Fairfield CT


Rob' Penn at Guthrie School


RPW posed for a book jacket photo, 1948


RPW and friend in Vermont


Eleanor Clark and RPW at summer home in West Wardsboro, VT, 1986


Medal awarded to RPW by the American Institute of Arts and Letters


Reverse side of the Medal awarded to RPW by the American Institute of Arts and Letters


Presidential Medal of Freedom


Laurel wreath awarded to U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Penn Warren, 1986


Typical notes made by RPW in some of his books


RPW's rough draft of a critical review


The Robert Penn Warren Library, Western Kentucky University


Robert Penn Warren Library, WKU
Warren kept his prized first editions in the cabinet shown here at the right. Photos of the Library at Fairfield hang above his desk.


Biographer Joseph Blotner

Critically acclaimed biography published in 1997

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