I . Earl Warren
(1891–1974)
a Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court (1953–69). He was a strong supporter of the civil rights movement and his court decided against segregation in public schools in the famous Brown v Board of Education case (1954). Warren led the Warren Commission , a committee formed to investigate the murder of President Kennedy . It published the Warren Report (1964) which said that Kennedy had been killed by Lee Harvey Oswald , acting alone.
II . Robert Penn Warren
(1905–89)
a US writer who was the country’s first Poet Laureate and the only American to receive the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry. He wrote mostly about the South . His Pulitzer Prizes were for the novel All the King’s Men (1946) and his poetry collections Promises (1957) and Now and Then (1979). Warren was also a well-known critic.