Interview with Eric Bentley, June 25, 1980
Project: Robert Penn Warren Oral History Project
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Bentley describes his relationship with Robert Penn Warren through the years, with an emphasis upon their time spent as colleagues working as professors at the University of Minnesota. The writing of the play and eventual novel "All the King's Men" is discussed. The collaborative and professional relationship between Bentley and Warren is also mentioned. The contemporaries of Warren and the dynamics between them are described as well.Interview Accession
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Bentley, Eric Interview by David Farrell. 25 Jun. 1980. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Bentley, E. (1980, June 25). Interview by D. Farrell. Robert Penn Warren Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Bentley, Eric, interview by David Farrell. June 25, 1980, Robert Penn Warren Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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