Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren

The years 1969 and 1979 bookend a volatile and divisive decade in American history. As an articulate and sagacious witness to the era of the Vietnam War, Watergate, America's Bicentennial, Jimmy Carter, and the national "malaise," Robert Penn Warren produced a phenomenal body of work in these years, securing his place in the canon of American poetry. This fifth volume of Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren provides insight into Warren's inspiration during a remarkably productive era and will prove an essential resource and testament to his life and work.

Randy Hendricks is a professor of English at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton. He is the author of Lonelier than God: Robert Penn Warren and the Southern Exile and a collection of short stories, The Twelfth Year and Other Times.

James A. Perkins, professor of English and public relations at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, is the editor of The Cass Mastern Material: The Core of Robert Penn Warren's "All the King's Men," among other books. Together Hendricks and Perkins have edited For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader; the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, volumes three and four; and David Madden: A Writer for All Genres.

William Bedford Clark is a professor of English at Texas A&M University, the author of The American Vision of Robert Penn Warren, and the editor of volumes one and two of the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren.