Stephen Vincent Benét

1898–1943

1 standalone book

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem John Brown's Body, published in 1928, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He also wrote the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster," published in 1936, and "By the Waters of Babylon," published in 1937. In 2009, the Library of America included his 1929 story "The King of the Cats" in American Fantastic Tales, a two-century retrospective of American speculative fiction.

Born

1898