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Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Robert Penn Warren
ROBERT PENN WARREN
Awarded by
President Jimmy Carter
June 9, 1980
Robert Penn Warren excels as a poet, novelist, literary critic, and teacher. His textbooks, written with Cleanth Brooks, transformed the teaching of literature and writing in the United States. As a literary craftsman and a committed humanist Robert Penn Warren has undertaken a lifelong quest for self-knowledge and moral vision which has established him as one of America's greatest men of letters of the 20th Century.
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