Historical Biography - United States - 19th Century, Abolitionists - Biography, Slavery & Abolitionism - African American History, 19th Century American History - Biography

John Brown

Name: John Brown
Author: Robert Penn Warren
ISBN: 9781258136147

by Robert Penn Warren (Editor)

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Overview

Warren’s first book, a biography that foreshadows the themes developed in novels like All the King's Men, portrays the flawed idealist whose violent seizure of the Harper's Ferry arsenal led to the greater violence of the Civil War. Southern Classics Series.

About the Author, Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), the first Poet Laureate of the United States, was a major literary figure of the 20th Century. Besides volumes of his poetry, he published eight novels, of which All the King’s Men is the best known. Other works include Night Rider and The Legacy of the Civil War.

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Warren wrote this, his first book, as a student in 1929. Though it's a straight biography of Civil War-rior Brown, there are shades of characters that would later people Warren's novels. This edition includes a new introduction by eminent Southern scholar C. Vann Woodward.