Stephen Vincent Benét
American poet, short story writer, novelist (1898-1943) · United States · On the map · Writers · Died at 44
Stephen Vincent Benét 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 the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster", published in 1936, and "By the...
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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 the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster", published in 1936, and "By the Waters of Babylon", published in 1937.
