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<p>Filled with entertaining anecdotes and personal reflections, this collection of twenty-four conversations with Robert Penn Warren provides an illuminating glimpse of the man and his thoughts on life and literature. Warren's wide interests—history, politics, technological change, teaching, race relations—span a period of more than three decades.</p> <p>"Perhaps in no literary genre is an author more completely and accurately himself than in an interview," the editors note. "Every attribute of Robert Penn Warren—his folksiness, his wit, his honesty and openness—or, in short, the full man—is peculiarly adapted to the genre." Strongly apparent, for example, are Warren's feelings about his country. "I'm in love with America; the funny part of it is, I really am," he tells Bill Moyers. Even so, he does not shrink from criticizing America's shortcomings as his comments to Edwin Newman about the Civil War and the country's involvement in Vietnam make clear.</p> <p>Warren's asides are replete with biographical gems. To interviewer Peter Stitt he remarks that he never intended to go to Vanderbilt, but to Annapolis, and that once at Vanderbilt, his original chosen vocation was chemical eng

Author

Floyd C. Watkins, John T. Hiers, Mary Louise Weaks

Publisher

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS GRADUATE SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SCIENCE; DISTRIBUTED BY THE ILLINOIS UNION BOOKSTORE: URBANA

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820312200

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities