The Cleanth Brooks Prize in Nonfiction
given to the best work of nonfiction published in The Southern Review each volume year

Cleanth Brooks began his teaching career at LSU in 1932, and together with Robert Penn Warren founded The Southern Review. He and Mr. Warren went on to publish the extraordinarily influential texts An Approach to Literature (1936), Understanding Poetry (1939), and Understanding Fiction (1943), books that changed fundamentally the way in which students were brought to an appreciation of literature. A beloved teacher, he was a dauntless advocate of new writers, choosing in one instance to publish in The Southern Review the work of an undergraduate student over that of a Nobel Prize-winner who had submitted an inferior story.

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