Robert Penn Warren, (1905-1989), America's first Poet Laureate, won three Pulitzer Prizes and virtually every
other major award given to American writers.
Summary
Set in the '30s, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional
character who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political career
as an idealistic man of the people but soon becomes corrupted by success and caught between dreams of service and
an insatiable lust for power. As relevant today as it was fifty years ago, All the King's Men is one of the classics
of American literature.
