num_pages: 438
description: Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King's Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. Its original publication by Harcourt catapulted author Robert Penn Warren to fame and made the novel a bestseller for many seasons. Set in the 1930s, it traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Stark, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success, caught between dreams of service and a lust for power.
language: English
title: All the King's Men
titlecomplete: All the King's Men
characters: Ellis Burden, "Sugar-Boy" O'Sheean, Gummy Larson, Judge Montague Irwin, Lucy Stark, Willie Stark, Sadie Burke, Tom Stark, Adam Stanton, Tiny Duffy, Jack Burden, Cass Mastern, Anne Stanton
genres: Fiction, Historical, American, Politics, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Southern, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 62725
places: Southern Region
awards: awardedAt: -725817600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: -536428800000
name: Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger
category: Roman, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto
publisher: Harcourt