Background
He was born on , February 2, 1886 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of James Walker Benét and his wife née Frances Neill Rose, and grandson of Brigadier General Stephen Vincent Benét.
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He was born on , February 2, 1886 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of James Walker Benét and his wife née Frances Neill Rose, and grandson of Brigadier General Stephen Vincent Benét.
He graduated from Yale in 1907, and in the succeeding years was a member of the staffs of various publications including the Century Magazine and the Saturday Review of Literature.
In 1913 he published Merchants of Cathay, which, with The Falcon of God (1914) and Moons of Grandeur (1920), revealed a fresh, colorful, romantic poetic talent. Some of his most moving verses of a later period were inspired by his second wife, Elinor Wylie. The Dust Which Is God (1941), a lengthy and noble autobiographical poem, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. BenétBenet edited several collections of poetry. Among his novels are The First Person Singular (1922) and The Flying King of Kurio (1926), a book for children. He died in New York City on May 4, 1950.
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Benét married four times: First, on 3 September 1912, he married Teresa France Thomson, with whom he had three children (James Walker Benét, Frances Rosemary Benét, and Kathleen Anne Benét). Teresa died in 1919. Benét's second wife whom he married on 5 October 1923, was poet Elinor Wylie. She died in 1928. Benét's third wife, whom he married on 15 March 1932, was Lora Baxter. They divorced in 1937. Benét's fourth wife, and widow, was children's writer Marjorie Flack. They were married from June 22, 1941 until his death in 1950.