Warren won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his best known work, the novel, All the King’s Men, whose main character, Willie Stark, resembles the radical Louisiana populist Huey Pierce Long, whom Warren was able to observe closely while teaching at LSU from 1933-42. Warren won Pulitzer Prizes in poetry in 1958 for Promises: Poems, 1954-56, and in 1979 for Now and Then. He is the only writer ever to win the Pulitzer in fiction and poetry. In 1981, he was selected as a MacArthur Fellow and later was named as the first U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.