Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét | |
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Benét at Yale College in 1919 | |
| Born | July 22, 1898 Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | March 13, 1943 (aged 44) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | Yale University (BA, MA) |
| Period | 20th century |
| Genre | Poetry, short story, novel |
| Notable works | John Brown's Body (1929) The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) By the Waters of Babylon (1937) Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) (adapted from Benét's story The Sobbin' Women) |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1929) O. Henry Award (1937) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1944, posthumous) |
| Spouse |
Rosemary Carr (m. 1921) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | William Rose Benét (brother) Laura Benét (sister) |
Stephen Vincent Benét (/bəˈneɪ/ bə-NAY; July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body, published in 1928, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster", published in 1936, and "By the Waters of Babylon", published in 1937.
In 2009, Library of America selected his story "The King of the Cats", published in 1929, for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub.