Description: The Time of Man stands as a beautifully written tribute to the human spirit.
Brief description: Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), born in Guthrie, Kentucky, was one of America's most revered writers, producing fiction, poetry, history, and criticism, much of it focusing on the moral dilemmas of the South. He served as America's first poet laureate. He received the Pulitzer Prize three times, for his novel All the King's Men and for his books of poetry Promises: Poems 1954-1956 and Now and Then. He is also the author of Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back and The Cave.
Review Quotes:
This is a book that embraces life . . . . [I]t is written in a prose at once lucid and arresting, rhythmical, fresh in phrasing and construction, giving always the effect of effortless arrangement.
-- "New York Times"