when I was at the post office mailing the thousandth book I've sold on half.com, I purchased some stamps. The gentleman on the stamps was Robert Penn Warren. Call me ignorant, but I had no idea who he was or why he was on the stamps. So in honor of my initial ignorance, here is some information about this poet, teacher, and author.
Warren was born in Kentucky in 1905. When he was 16, he had a rock-throwing accident and injured his eye, which had to be removed later. He was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford and had a secret marriage that lasted 32 years. (I can't quite understand why he had a secret marriage because he wasn't exactly famous when he got married. It's not like he was Janet Jackson and had to hide all his marriages.) The year after that marriage ended, he married again and had two kids.
He is most famous for writing All The King's Men and won the Pulitzer Prize for it in 1947.
This was where a light bulb went on in my head because I've heard of this novel, but it is on the list entitled "Famous Books to Read that I Probably Will Never Get To." (My David Sedaris reading gets in the way.)
So that is your famous author's abbreviated biography for the day. Happy blogging!
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