Stephen Vincent Benet
(1898-1943)
Poet, short story writer, novelist
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Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936) and "By the Waters of Babylon" (1937). In 2009, The Library of America selected his story "The King of the Cats" (1929) for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales edited by Peter Straub.
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Stephen Vincent Benét 22 July 1898 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
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13 March 1943 (aged 44) New York City
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| Zodiac | Cancer |
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