All the King's Men
American novelist, 1905–1989. Won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1947.
All the King's Men is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1947.
On 4 of the 16 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Robert Penn Warren
- First published
- 1946
- Length
- 672 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, 1947
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Political
Is All the King's Men worth reading?
4 of the 16 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Best Novels (board's list) (Modern Library, 1998) | No. 36 | See the list |
| All-Time 100 Novels (Time, 2005) | Listed | See the list |
| Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (winners and finalists) (Columbia University, 1947) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of All the King's Men
The edition we link to is the Penguin Classics paperback (2007), 672 pages.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics (paperback, 2007)
- Pages
- 672
- ISBN
- 9780141188614
How critics, prizes and readers rate All the King's Men
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 100% of the points available on prize lists, against 28% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like All the King's Men
If you liked All the King's Men, try Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World or On the Road.
