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Based on a Real Life: All The King’s Men

Live Event
July 27: 2:00 pm

One biography each year is awarded a Pulitzer Prize, but these character studies wouldn’t count – each is a Pulitzer-winning work of fiction, with portions based on one person’s real life story.

Cover art for All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren featuring a man in front of a microphone from the back, with arms raisedAll the King’s Men is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. Its title is drawn from the nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty”. The novel tells the story of charismatic populist governor Willie Stark and his political machinations in the Depression-era Deep South. It is commonly thought to have been loosely inspired by the real-life story of U.S. Senator Huey P. Long, who was assassinated in 1935. Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for All the King’s Men in 1947. The novel has received critical acclaim and remained perennially popular since its first publication. It was rated the 36th greatest novel of the 20th century by Modern Library, and it was chosen as one of Time magazine’s 100 best novels since 1923. All the King’s Men portrays the dramatic and theatrical political rise and governorship of Willie Stark, a cynical populist in the 1930s American South.

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July 27
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2:00 pm
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Organizer

Kathleen Hoyne
Phone
(802) 563-2721

Venue

Cabot Public Library
3084 Main Street
Cabot, VT 05647 United States
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