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The Stacks: The Poet Who Took on Huey Long

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Robert Penn Warren made winning Pulitzer prizes look like a habit. Here the author of possibly the best political novel ever written is captured in a fond but piercing profile.

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Published Mar. 21 2015 6:45AM EDT

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Steve Oney

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