ROBERT PENN WARREN - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 11/12/1980 - HFSID 206141

ROBERT PENN WARREN
The author responds belatedly and with remorse to a request
 ALS: "Robert Penn Warren" on verso of personal postal card, 5½x3¼. Fairfield, Connecticut, 1980 November 12. On card imprinted with his name and return address to "Dear Mr. Williams". In full: "Just today I find your packet (& the [illegible] notebook) in a pile of stuff in my work room. So much for good intentions. What shall I do? Write in it now & return to the children (or do you get this card?) Or what. I'm overwhelmed with remorse". Addressed by Warren: "To Mr./Henry Williams, c/o R.E. Heminger, 212 Gunter St., St. Mary's GA 31558". Two 5-cent George Washington stamps affixed, postmarked Bridgeport, Connecticut, date illegible. Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), the only writer to win Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry, captured the 1947 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for All the King's Men, his classic novel of southern politics based on the career of Louisiana Governor Huey Long. He won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Promises: Poems 1954-1956, and the 1979 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978.Warren, who served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1944-1945, was the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1986-1987). In 1980, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Postmark touches two words of addressee's name on front. Fine condition.