Background
Benét was born on July 22, 1898 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to James Walker Benét, a colonel in the United States Army, and his wife.
(This narrative poem on the settling of the United States ...)
This narrative poem on the settling of the United States was awarded the Pulitzer Price posthumously in 1944. We are republishing this classic works with a new additional biography of the author. Benét was an accomplished writer at an early age, having had his first book published at 17. His best known works are the book-length narrative poem American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), and two short stories, The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) and By the Waters of Babylon (1937).
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(Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Vincent Benét was o...)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Vincent Benét was one of America's greatest storytellers, most famous for his witty and moving tribute to American history, The Devil and Daniel Webster, where a trial for a man's soul becomes a trial of America itself, of all that is best and worst in a great and tumultuous new country. In addition, this collection includes six more of Benét's best short stories, which in a similar vein, depict compelling and diverse elements in America's great social tapestry, with memorable and often amusing characters: a man whose toothache leads him to encounter Paul Revere on the eve of the American Revolution; a Jewish immigrant who discovers a new experience of life as a trader on the American frontier; a woman brought from Africa as a slave who teaches her grandson the price of freedom; an old confederate colonel, hateful and unwilling to accept the loss of his old world; and an adventurous young man who discovers the folly in all walks of human life. The stories included are: The Devil and Daniel Webster Jacob and the Indians A Tooth for Paul Revere Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing O'Halloran's Luck The Die-Hard Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer
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Young People's Pride and Other Stories contained 8 works written by Stephen Vincent Benét (18981943) was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. And Charles Waddell Chesnutt (18581932) was an African American author, essayist, political activist and lawyer, best known for his novels and short stories These are the 8 works in this book: 1. Young People's Pride (1922) 2. Young Adventure (1918) 3. The Wife of his Youth and Other (1899) 4. The Conjure Woman (1899) 5. Frederick Douglass (1899) 6. The House Behind the Cedars {1900} 7. The Marrow of Tradition (1901) 8. The Colonel's Dream (1905)
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(This short piece, written by Stephen Vincent Benét, is a ...)
This short piece, written by Stephen Vincent Benét, is a modern drama of the Nativity originally written for broadcasting on the radio. It was originally published in 1942 and is now republished here with a new introductory biography. Benét was an accomplished writer at an early age, having had his first book published at 17. His best known works are the book-length narrative poem American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), and two short stories, The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) and By the Waters of Babylon (1937).
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Benét was born on July 22, 1898 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to James Walker Benét, a colonel in the United States Army, and his wife.
Benét graduated from Yale University in 1919. He returned to Yale for graduate study after service in the State Department during World War I, was awarded an M. A. in 1920, and spent the following year in Paris writing poetry and fiction.
His precocious talent had already been displayed in the skillful dramatic monologues of Five Men and Pompey (1915), written when he was only 17, and in two successive volumes of verse, published while he was a Yale undergraduate. In 1921 he divided the Poetry Society prize with Carl Sandburg and attracted notice with a timely novel, The Beginning of Wisdom. On November 26, 1921, Benét and Rosemary Carr, a talented writer from Chicago, were married. Benét's marriage was the major richness of his adult life, even more meaningful to him than his many literary successes. During the 1920's Benét turned increasingly to magazine fiction to support his growing family. In time he mastered the medium and gave new dimensions of fantasy and national history to the stale formulas of commercial fiction. His The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) has remained one of the most widely read American short stories, just as his two long narrative poems, John Brown's Body (1928) and Western Star (1943), have been revered by successive generations of American readers. Benet died on March 13, 1943, in New York, his health destroyed by months of labor on radio scripts and writing assignments for the war effort.
(Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Vincent Benét was o...)
(Young People's Pride and Other Stories contained 8 works ...)
(This short piece, written by Stephen Vincent Benét, is a ...)
(This narrative poem on the settling of the United States ...)
On November 26, 1921, Benet and Rosemary Carr, a talented writer from Chicago, were married. They had 3 children.