All The King's Men

Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men is generally ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989) considered the finest novel ever written on American won three Pulitzer Prizes, the National politics. Set in the 1930s, this beloved book traces the rise Book Award, the National Medal for and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey Literature, and the Presidential Medal "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political of Freedom. In 1986 he was named the career as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes country's first poet laureate. corrupted by success. First published in 1946, All the King's Men won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1949. One of the classics of American literature, All the King's Men is as relevant today as ever.