November 16, 2001
LSU Atones for Losing Robert Penn Warren, Who Once Dismissed It as a 'Hell-Hole'
SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT: Like an elderly bayou fisherman in a bar, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge is still talking, six decades later, about the one that got away.
When the English department lost 37-year-old professor Robert Penn Warren in 1942, he hadn't yet started writing his novel All the King's Men (1946), a fictionalized rendering of the career of Huey Long that won the author the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes. But recent publication by Harcourt Inc. of a
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