Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989), prose writer, poet, philosopher, one of the most prominent figures in American literature of the 20th century. In Russia, the most popular was his novel “All the King’s Men” (1946), based on which a multi-part television film was made with G. Zhzhenov in the title role. The hero of the novel “The Place Where I Will Return,” translated into Russian for the first time, is the world-famous philologist Jed Tewksbury, in whom the features of Warren himself can be discerned. Having lived a long life full of events and passions, Jed understands: he has a place where he will return at the end of his odyssey...

This novel by Robert Penn Warren has not previously been published in Russia