Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at WKU
Pictures and Videos of Robert Penn Warren
All photographs are courtesy of the Robert Penn Warren Library, Library Special Collections,
Western Kentucky University.
To access these photographs and many more, contact Mr. Jonathan Jeffrey at jonathan.jeffrey@wku.edu or (270) 745-5265.
Photos of Robert Penn Warren
The Warren family on their front porch in Guthrie, Kentucky in 1910. Robert Penn Warren is pictured with his mother, Anna Ruth Penn, his father, Robert Franklin Warren, his sister, Mary Cecilia, and his brother, William Thomas Warren.
Photos of Robert Penn Warren
Senior portrait of Robert Penn Warren, valedictorian of Clarksville (Tennessee) High School's graduating class of 1921. Photo by Howard Smith.
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Robert Penn Warren outside Random House, 1950. Photo by Sally Ross.
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Robert Penn Warren with his daughter, Rosanna Warren during the family's stay in La Rocca, Italy, 1956.
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An interview with Robert Penn Warren at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, 1965.
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Robert Penn Warren and his family at their home in Fairfield, Connecticut, 1959. Photo by Sam Falk of the New York Times.
Photos of Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren and his family at their home in Fairfield, Connecticut, 1959. Photo by Sam Falk of the New York Times.
Photos of Robert Penn Warren
Photo of poets and critics attending the Fugitives reunion at the home of Jesse Ely Wells in Nashville, Tennessee, 1956. First Row: Robert Penn Warren, Dorothy Bethurum (Loomis), Merrill Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Sidney M. Hirsch, Donald Davidson, Louise Cowan, William Yandell Elliott. Second Row: William Thorp, Andrew Nelson Lytle, Jesse Ely Wills, Alfred Starr, Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Third Row: Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks, William C. Cobb, Rob Roy Purdy, Richmond Croom Beatty, Frank L. Owsley, Randall Stewart, Brainard Cheney, Robert Jacobs, Alec Brock Stevenson. Photo by Joe Radis of the Nashville Tennesseean.
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Robert Penn Warren and his children, Rosanna and Gabriel Warren, in Locmariaquer, France, 1961.
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Robert Penn Warren during his Seminar on American Literature in Tokyo, Japan, 1962.
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Robert Penn Warren and his wife, Eleanor Clark Warren, with their children, Rosanna Warren and Gabriel Warren, flying a kite from the front of a freighter, 1966.
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Robert Penn Warren with the family dog, 1968.
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Robert Penn Warren with friend and co-author Cleanth Brooks in Fairfield, Connecticut, 1979. Both authors were central figures of New Criticism, a literary movement that focused on close reading of text. Photo by Bill Ferris of the Center for Southern Folklore.
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Robert Penn Warren reviewing portraits with his wife, Eleanor Clark Warren, in Fairfield, Connecticut. Photo by Bill Ferris of the Center for Southern Folklore.