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Stephen Vincent Benét (/ b ə ˈ n eɪ / bə-NAY; July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist.
Between the years 1928 and 1943, Stephen Vincent Benét was one of the best-known living American poets, more widely read than Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, or Wallace Stevens and as well respected in book review columns.
Jul 18, 2024 · Stephen Vincent Benét (born July 22, 1898, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died March 13, 1943, New York, New York) was an American poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, best known for John Brown’s Body, a long narrative poem on the American Civil War.
Stephen Vincent Benét was born July 22, 1898. His most famous work is the long poem John Brown's Body, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1929.
May 14, 2018 · A poet and writer of fiction and dramatic adaptations, Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) retold materials from American history, legend, and folklore with charm, humor, fervor, and a sense of theatricality.
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Stephen Vincent Benét (beh-NAY) made his major contribution to literature as a poet and primarily as the author of the book-length poem John Brown’s Body....
Stephen Vincent Benét was born July 22, 1898, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, into a military family. His father had a wide appreciation for literature, and Benét's siblings, William Rose and Laura, also became writers.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Vincent Benèt was born in Bethlehem in 1898. After a well-traveled youth, Benèt began a prolific writing career. Though he wrote many short stories for sale to magazines, he felt they distracted him from his main project, the long poem.
Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown’s Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, “The Devil and Daniel Webster” (1936) and “By the Waters of Babylon” (1937).