Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, literary critic, and writer. He attended from Clarksville High school in Tennessee, Vanderbilt University, and the University of California, Berkeley in 1926. Later he joined Yale University and got a bachelor's in Litt as a Rhodes Scholar.

The best place to start is the U.S. Landmark Non-Fiction series, the earliest of Robert Penn Warren's multi-book series: it opens with Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1943) and runs to 43 books across 1943–2008, ending with The Swamp Fox of the Revolution (2008). Robert Penn Warren's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Robert Penn Warren has 120 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1857 and 2014. 48 of them belong to 2 named series — the largest being the U.S. Landmark Non-Fiction series with 43 books — and 72 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Robert Penn Warren's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are U.S. Landmark Non-Fiction (1943–2008, 43 books) and Robert Penn Warren Letters (2000–2011, 5 books).

This guide splits Robert Penn Warren's 120 books into 2 named series and 72 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: U.S. Landmark Non-Fiction (43 books, 1943–2008); Robert Penn Warren Letters (5 books, 2000–2011).