Robert Penn Warren Gives Reading Today In New Lecture Hall

Robert Penn Warren, prize-winning poet and novelist, will give a reading of his own poetry at New Lecture Hall today at 4:30 under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund.

Warren, who is a professor in the English department at Yale University, and also teaches in the drama school received the Pulitzer prize for his novel "All the King's Men," in 1946; and the Screen Writers Guild award for his motion picture adaptation in 1949.

He received the Levinson Prize in 1936 for his poetry, "A Magazine of Verse," the Caroline Sinker prize from the Poetry Society of South Carolina in 1936, 1937 and 1938; and the Shelley Prize in poetry in 1942.

His most recent poetry is "Brother to Dragons," which is a play, and his most recent novel is "Band of Angels."