Description: Filled with entertaining anecdotes and personal reflections, this collection of twenty-four conversations with Robert Penn Warren provides an illuminating glimpse of the man and his thoughts on life and literature. Warren's wide interests--history, politics, technological change, teaching, race relations--span a period of more than three decades.
Brief description: FLOYD WATKINS, author and editor of a several books and articles, is a professor emeritus of English at Emory University.
Review Quotes:
If twentieth-century American literature has a Renaissance man of letters, surely it is Robert Penn Warren. Author of that great novel, All the KIng's Men; our first poet-laureate; winner of the Pulitzer Prize in both genres; important New Critic; renowned teacher at Yale--such are a few highlights of Warren's career. This collection of interviews offers anecdotes, facts and opinions about the writer's oeuvre and the man's life.
--Washington Post