 |
Books about Robert Penn Warren and his Works: This is a listing, by author, of books about Robert Penn Warren. It is provided for those desiring knowledge of Warren and his works. We have attempted to show a list complete as possible at the time of designing the page. As to any we have missed we will gladly add to the list. Authors of books about Warren or about his works please contact us and we will promptly discuss the listing with you.
|
| Charlotte H. Beck | Jonathan S. Cullick | James A. Grimshaw, Jr. |
| Joseph Blotner, now retired, lives with his wife, Marnie, in
Virginia. He has a distinguished teaching career at the Universities of Idaho, Virginia,
North Carolina, and Michigan. He was educated at Drew, Northwestern, and the University of
Pennsylvania. He interrupted his education to fly with the 8th Air Force in
England during World War II. He is the father of three daughters. Twice a Guggenheim
Fellow and twice a Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen, he has been a
visiting professor at Trinity College (Connecticut) and the Universities of Mississippi,
Arizona, and Rome. He is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Michigan. Robert Penn
Warren, A Biography, New York, Random House, l997. Other Books by Joseph L. Blotner The Political Novel,
(1955) |
|
| Back to Top of Page | Home Page |
 Randolph Paul Runyon |
Randolph Paul Runyon is professor of French at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he has taught since 1977. His wide-ranging scholarship goes beyond French literature, however, and in 1984 he became interested in Robert Penn Warren. This resulted in The Taciturn Text, examining Warren’s fiction, and The Braided Dream, exploring Warren’s recent poetry. Runyon also is author of a book on the short stories of Raymond Carver and has had chapters and articles printed in numerous publications. Of note are articles on Warren: “Repeating the ‘Implacable Monotone’ in Thirty-Six Poems” (Mississippi Quarterly, winter 1994-95) and “The last of night’s voices’: A Meditation on ‘Masts at Dawn’” (The Distillery, winter 1994). Recent book chapters include: “John Grisham: Obsessive Imagery,” and “Fred Chappell: Midquestions,” both in Southern Writers at Century’s End (ed. Jeffrey J. Folks and James A. Perkins, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997). His book on an incident in Kentucky history, Delia Webster and the Underground Railroad, has received some attention and led to Runyon’s current service on the Speakers’ Bureau of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, to be built in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 2003. Runyon and wife, Elizabeth, are both Kentucky natives. They are parents to Ezekiel and Augusta. The Taciturn Text: The
Fiction of Robert Penn Warren. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990. Other Books by Randolph Paul Runyon Fowles/Irving/Barthes:
Canonical Variations on an Apocryphal Theme. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press,
1981 Books Forthcoming/in progress by Randolph Paul Runyon La Fontaine's Unbroken Chain: The Fables in Their Sequence. Charlottesville: EMF/Rookwood Press, 2000. |
| Back to Top of Page | Home Page |
Victor Strandberg, who grew up in Worcester County in Massachusetts, earned his A.B. at Clark University in 1957 and Ph.D. at Brown in 1962. Married in 1961, he and his wife Penny have two grown daughters, Anne and Susan. After teaching at the University of Vermont until 1966, he joined the English Department at Duke University, where he has contrived to spend a semester abroad every sabbatical year with Fulbright appointments in Sweden, Belgium, and Germany (Uppsala, Louvain, and Mannheim), along with other teaching appointments in Morocco and Japan (Marrakech and Kobe). Although he has published books and essays about many American writers, Robert Penn Warren has remained a central focus of his scholarship for forty years. In 1990, a few months after the writer's death, Strandberg founded the Robert Penn Warren Circle, an association of scholars and admirers of Mr. Warren which is open to anyone interested in his life and work. The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press: 1977. Other Books by Victor Strandberg: A Faulkner Overview: Six
Perspectives. The Kennikat Press: 1981 |
 Victor Strandberg |
| Back to Top of Page | Home Page |
| Lucy Ferriss is a novelist and scholar whose five books
include Sleeping with the Boss: Female Subjectivity and Narrative Pattern in Robert
Penn Warren. She has published extensively on feminist approaches to Warren,
and most notably in the Mississippi Review, Double Dealer Redux, and "To
Love So Well the World": A Festschrift in Honor of Robet Penn Warren (Lang,
1992). Recent honors include a Fulbright fellowship, Yaddo Fellowship, the Pirate's
Alley Faulkner Award in the Novel, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in
fiction. She teaches literature and creative writing at Hamilton College and lives
in Clinton, New York, with her husband and two sons. Books On Warren Sleeping With the Boss: Female Subjectivity and Narrative Pattern in Robert Penn Warren, Louisiana State University Press, 1997 Other Books by Lucy Ferris The Misconceiver (Simon and Schuster, 1997) Against Gravity (Simon & Schuster, 1996) The Gated River (Franklin Watts, 1986) Philip's Girl (Schoken, 1985) |
|
| Back to Top of Page | Home Page |
 James A. Grimshaw, Jr. |
James A. Grimshaw, Jr., is the father of two children, Courtney and James, now grown, and lives with his wife, Dee, in Texas where they raise bison and peafowl in addition to his academic interests and pursuits. He presently teaches at Texas A&M University-Commerce where he is a Regents Professor of the TAMU System. Prior to that he taught at the United States Air Force Academy and was a lecturer at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. He has also been the Flannery O’Connor Distinguished Visiting Professor in English at Georgia College and a Visiting Fellow in Bibliography at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. He served in Vietnam and is a retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel. He received his M. A. degree in English with a minor in philosophy from Texas Tech University and his PH.D. in English from LSU studying under Lewis Simpson. For nine years he was chair of the Advisory Group to the Center For Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western Kentucky University and has served as president of the Robert Penn Warren Circle. He is listed in Who’s Who In America. Understanding Robert Penn Warren by James
A. Grimshaw, Jr., 2001, University of South Carolina Press Other Books by James A. Grimshaw: Cleanth
Brooks at the United States Air Force Academy. Colorado Springs, CO: USAF Academy
Press, 1980. Editor. Books forthcoming/in progress by James A. Grimshaw: Robert Penn Warren’s
"All the King’s Men": Three Stage Versions. With James A.Perkins.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, [1999].
|
| Back to Top of Page | Home Page |
William Bedford Clark lives in Bryan Texas with his wife Charlene and daughters Mary and Eleanor. He was educated at the Univ. of Oklahoma(BA '69) and LSU (MA '71; PhD '73) and did postdoctoral study as an NEH Fellow at Yale. He then joined the faculty in English at North Carolina A&T University (1974-77) and in 1977 moved to Texas A&M where he is now Professor of English. Clark founded the award winning South Central Review, which is the journal of the South Central Modern Language Association. He is the author of a wide range of articles, essays, and reviews appearing in leading journals. A charter member and past president of the Robert Penn Warren Circle, he was recently named to the Advisory Board of the Robert Penn Warren Center at Western Kentucky University. Critical
Essays On Robert Penn Warren (ed.)(Boston:G.K. Hall, 1981). Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: The Apprentice Years, 1924-1934 Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume 2, The Southern Review Years 1935-1942 Other Books by William Bedford Clark: Critical
Essays On American Humor (co-ed with W. Craig Turner) (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984). |
 William Bedford Clark |
| Back to Top of Page | Home Page |
|
John Burt is Professor of English at Brandeis University. He is the
editor of The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren (Louisiana State
University Press, 1998) and the author of Robert Penn Warren and American
Idealism (Yale University Press, 1988). He is also the author of two books of poems, The
Way Down (Princeton University Press, 1988) and Work Without Hope (The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1996). Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism (Yale
University Press, 1988) Other Books by John Burt: The Way Down (Princeton
University Press, 1988) |
| Back to Top of Page | Home Page |
Robert Koppelman received his BA in English and Political Studies from Pitzer College, Claremont, CA. in 1981. In 1983 he received his MA in Education from Claremont Graduate School (CA) and, from the same institution, his MA in English in 1986. At the University of Oregon, in 1993, he received his Ph.D. in English. His teaching career began in 1982 at LaSalle High School, Pasadena, CA., and he then went to San Diego Community College District as an Instructor (1987-89). From 1989-1994 he was a graduate teaching fellow at the University of Oregon and Instructor at Lane Community College both being in Eugene, OR. As Assistant Professor of English, 1994-96, he was at Gainesville College, Gainesville, GA. Presently he is an Instructor of English at Broward Community College, Davie, FL., and at Florida International University, Miami, FL. Since 1997 he has served on the Executive Board of the Robert Penn Circle being a member since 1992. He has published in the Mississippi Quarterly, and Southern Folklore. Books Robert Penn Warren's
Modernist Spirituality-U of Missouri Press; (1995) |
|
| Back to Top of Page | Home Page |
| Jonathan S. Cullick was educated at the
University of Houston (BA, 1986), after which he taught in a middle school in Texas.
Married in 1988, he continued his education at Marquette University (MA, 1990) and the
University of Kentucky (PhD, 1997). In addition to his book on Warren, he is the author of
a number of articles on American and Southern literature, which have appeared in well
known journals such as Studies in American Fiction, Southern Literary Journal,
Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, American Literary Realism,
and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. His current project is a study of
racial violence. He lives with his wife,
Cheryl, in Kentucky where he is Assistant Professor; Director of the Writing Instruction
Program, Department of Literature and Language, Northern Kentucky University, Highland
Heights, Kentucky. Making History-The Biographical Narratives of Robert Penn Warren, 2000, LSU Press, Baton Rouge |
|
| Back to Top of Page | Home Page |
|
David Madden is presently
Donald and Velvia Crumbley Professor of Creative Writing at Louisiana State
University. He graduated from the University of Tennessee, earned an M. A. at San
Francisco State, and attended Yale Drama School on a John Golden Fellowship. He was
a Writer-in-residence at LSU from 1968 to 1992 and Director of the Creative Writing
Program from 1992 to 1994 and was the Founding Director of the United States Civil War
Center 1992-1999. He has published poems and short stories in numerous publications
from Red Book and Playboy to The Southern Review and Botteghe
Oscure. He has published novels with The Suicide's Wife being made into a
CBS Movie. He has done extensive work in literary criticism and has edited several
innovative textbooks. For more on the vast literary experience of David Madden and
his literary works click here.
The Legacy of Robert Penn Warren, 2000, LSU Press, Baton Rouge |
| Back to Top of Page | Home Page |
| Randy Hendricks is an Associate Professor of
English as the State University of West Georgia, where he has taught in one capacity or
another for thirteen years. He was educated at Hiwassee College and the University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he received his Ph.D. in 1990. Though his teaching and
research interests range broadly over American literature, with special interests in
Southern Literature and American Romanticism, his intense interest in Warren has lasted
since he first read "Blackberry Winter" as a college sophomore in 1976.
Earlier publications on Warren include two articles-"Warren's Wandering Son"
(South Atlantic Review 59.2, 1994) and "Warren's Wilderness and the Defining
'If'" (Mississippi Quarterly 48.1, 1995). Hendricks has collaborated with James A. Perkins on another book, "For the Record":
A Robert Drake Reader. He lives in Carrolton, Georgia, with his wife Cher, his children
Amanda and Derek, and an fluctuating number of porch dogs. Randy Hendricks can be reached
via e-mail: rhendric@westga.edu Books by Randy Hendricks Lonelier than God-Robert Penn Warren and the Southern Exile, Randy Hendricks, 2000, The University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia 30602 Forthcoming Books by Randy Hendricks "For the Record": A Robert Drake Reader. Co-edited with James A. Perkins-Forthcoming February 2001 from Mercer University Press. |
|
| Back to Top of Page | Home Page |
|
James A. Perkins is a
Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Public Relations at Westminster
College in New Wilmington, PA. He holds degrees from Centre College, Miami University and
the University of Tennessee. Perkins, whose dissertation was on the American poet Kenneth
Fearing, became interested in Warren during an NEH Summer Seminar conducted at Yale by
R.W.B. Lewis in 1989. In addition to his scholarly writing and editing, Perkins is a poet
and a short story writer. He taught creative writing for twenty years. He now teaches
textual criticism and public relations research courses. In 1998, he taught as a Fulbright
Senior Lecturer at Seoul National University. Jane, his wife, recently retired and
stays busy planning their next trip. They have two married sons, James and Jeffrey. Books by James A. Perkins: With James A. Grimshaw, Jr., Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: Three Stage Versions 2000(edited plays) The Amish: 2 Perceptions (1976) (poetry) The Woodcarver 1978 (poetry) The Amish: 2 Perceptions 2 1981 (poetry) Snakes, Butterbeans and the Discovery of Electricity 1990 (short stories) Billy the Kid, Chicken Grizzards, and Other Tales 1977 (short stories) With Jeffrey Folks, Southern Writers at Century's End 1997 (edited collection of essays) Books Forthcoming With Randy Hendricks, For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader (coming February 2001) |
| Back to Top of Page | Home Page |
| Charlotte H. Beck is Professor of English
at Maryville College. Her articles on Randall Jarrell, Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth
Brooks, and other modern writers have appeared in various journals and collections.
She is immediate past president of the Robert Penn Warren Circle and edited the Fall
1994-95 issue of the Mississippi Quarterly on Warren. Her book, Worlds and
Lives: The Poetry of Randall Jarrell was published in 1983 by Associated Faculty
Press. Assisted by grants from the Appalachian College Association and Maryville
College, she will soon begin work toward a book on Robert Penn Warren's literary
criticism. Books by Charlotte H. Beck Worlds and Lives: The Poetry of Randall Jarrell The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History |
|
