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Robert Penn Warren

1905 - 1989

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Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Penn Warren has received more than 751,804 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Robert Penn Warren is the 2,870th most popular writer (down from 2,604th in 2019), the 3,631st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,412th in 2019) and the 315th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.33

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

World enough and time
Married people, Fiction in English, Revenge
1950
All the King's Men
Drama, Fiction, Fiction in English
The story is about Willie Stark, a slick politician of humble birth, who was based on real-life Huey Long, a Louisiana governor, but the real main character is Jack Burden, a reporter who serves to narrate the story and Stark's rise to power.
1946
Night rider
Fiction, Night Riders (Group), Tobacco farmers
1939
Band of angels
Racially mixed people, Women slaves, Plantation life
1955
Brother to dragons
Poetry, History, Murder
1953
At heaven's gate
1943

Page views of Robert Penn Warrens by language

Over the past year Robert Penn Warren has had the most page views in the with 84,720 views, followed by Russian (8,706), and French (6,201). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hungarian (203.17%), Simple English (176.39%), and (87.86%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Robert Penn Warren ranks 2,870 out of 7,302. Before him are Kostis Palamas, Anthony Horowitz, Gu Yanwu, Jonathan Franzen, Giacomo da Lentini, and Jack Williamson. After him are Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Lucia Berlin, Erich Fried, Lawrence Block, Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, and Gideon Levy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Robert Penn Warren ranks 148. Before him are Fumiko Enchi, Zdeněk Burian, Manuel Ferreira, Tore Keller, Jan Gies, and Dmitri Shepilov. After him are Michael Powell, Nise da Silveira, Georges Schehadé, Theodor Oberländer, Erich Neumann, and Aldo Fabrizi. Among people deceased in 1989, Robert Penn Warren ranks 121. Before him are Michał Rola-Żymierski, Riccardo Morandi, Joe Spinell, Mouloud Mammeri, Guy Laroche, and Martti Talvela. After him are Chen Boda, Yuliya Solntseva, Abbie Hoffman, Armand Salacrou, Georges Schehadé, and Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Penn Warren ranks 3,631 out of 20,380. Before him are Jonathan Franzen (1959), Chris O'Donnell (1970), The Big Bopper (1930), Dee Wallace (1948), Gabriel Almond (1911), and Jack Williamson (1908). After him are Kenny Clarke (1914), Christina Grimmie (1994), Jane Lynch (1960), Lucia Berlin (1936), Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850), and Whitfield Diffie (1944).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Robert Penn Warren ranks 315. Before him are Ben Hecht (1893), William L. Shirer (1904), Anne McCaffrey (1926), Maurice Sendak (1928), Jonathan Franzen (1959), and Jack Williamson (1908). After him are Lucia Berlin (1936), Lawrence Block (1938), Andre Norton (1912), Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897), Budd Schulberg (1914), and Tony Robbins (1960).

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