All the King’s Men

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1946).

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Hardcover. First edition. Dark red cloth stamped in gilt. Spine gently bumped, near fine in heavily used, fair only dustwrapper with flaps nearly detached, edges worn, one-third of spine chipped off (not affecting text), in a custom cloth chemise and quarter morocco slipcase.

Warren’s third novel, a fictionalized vision of Huey Long which won Warren his first Pulitzer Prize, as well as widespread critical and popular success. Warren won a second Pulitzer Prize for *Promises*, a collection of poetry, in 1958. America’s first poet laureate, Warren remains the only writer to have received the Pulitzer in both fiction and poetry. A spectacular association copy, inscribed to his close friend and fellow Fugitive writer Andrew Lytle, and signed with the nickname that Lytle gave him and that Warren was known by for the rest of his life: "To Andrew & Edna / with all the best / Red / August 1946."

Warren met Lytle, two years his senior, while an undergraduate at Vanderbilt. The two became instant and lasting friends, and Lytle later remembered Warren much as his professors had, as “very brilliant, and the smartest boy I knew, extraordinarily alert, knowledgeable in every way” (Blotner. *Robert Penn Warren: A Biography* p.33). Also memorable was Warren’s shock of red hair, described by Lytle as “red as a fireball,” for which Lytle and another friend christened him as “Red,” the enduring nickname by which Warren would forever after be known to his friends. Lytle’s book *The Velvet Horn* was nominated for The National Book Award and as editor of the literary journal *Sewanee Review*, he was an early champion of Flannery O'Connor.

A transcendent association copy of one of the most important novels of the Southern Literary Renaissance.


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Item #455624 All the King’s Men. Robert Penn WARREN.
All the King’s Men
All the King’s Men