''Night Rider'' is the

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by American author

Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the liter ...

. It was published in the United States in 1939."List of novels by Penn Warren"
at www.RobertPennWarren.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-07. The book's main character, Percy Munn, is a young lawyer involved in a fictionalized version of the

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, which took place in

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and

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in the early years of the 20th century.

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* Ralph Thompson
"Review of ''Night Rider''"
Books of the Times, March 14, 1939. Retrieved on 2008-01-07. Novels by Robert Penn Warren 1939 American novels Fiction set in the 1900s Houghton Mifflin books Novels set in Kentucky Novels set in Tennessee Works about the tobacco industry 1939 debut novels {{1930s-novel-stub