A.B. Guthrie and Robert Penn Warren at the University of Kentucky where they spoke at the writers series program in October 1950. Guthrie was a novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1950 for his novel The Way West. He also worked for 22 years as a reporter and editor at the Lexington Leader. Warren was a poet, novelist, and literary critic and also won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel All the King's Men in 1946 and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He was born in Guthrie, Ky. Published in the Lexington Leader October 19, 1950. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
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