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A Short Biography of Stephen Vincent Benét

Author Name:

Stephen Vincent Benét

Born As:

Stephen Vincent Benét

Other Names:

Stephen Vincent Benét

Born:

22 Jul 1898

Died:

13 Mar 1943




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Poet and writer                          
Selected works:

Five Men and Pompey - 1915
The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun - Yale University Prize Poem, 1917
Young Adventure - 1918 - full text
Heavens and Earth - 1920
The Beginnings of Wisdom - 1921
Young People's Pride - 1922
Jean Huguenot - 1923
The Ballad of William Sycamore - 1923
King David - 1923
Nerves - 1924 - with John Farrar
That Awful Mrs. Eaton - 1924 - with John Farrar
Tiger Joy - 1925
Spanish Bayonet - 1926
John Brown's Body - 1928
The Barefoot Saint - 1929
The Litter of Rose Leaves - 1930
Abraham Lincoln - 1930 - screenplay with Gerrit Lloyd
Ballads and Poems - 1915-1930, 1931
A Book of Americans - 1933 - with Rosemary Carr Benét
James Shore's Daughter - 1934
The Burning City - 1936 - includes 'Litany for Dictatorships'
The Magic of Poetry and the Poet's Art - 1936
By the Waters of Babylon - 1937
The Headless Horseman - 1937
Thirteen O'Clock - 1937
Johnny Pye and the Fool Killer - 1938
Tales Before Midnight - 1939
The Ballad of the Duke's Mercy - 1939
Nightmare at Noon - 1940
Elementals - 1940-41 - broadcast
Freedom's Hard-Bought Thing - 1941 - broadcast
Listen to the People - 1941
A Summons to the Free - 1941
Cheers for Miss Bishop - 1941 - screenplay with Adelaide Heilbron - Sheridan Gibney
They Burned the Books - 1942
Selected Works - 1942 - 2 vols.
Short Stories - 1942
Nightmare at Noon - 1942 - in The Treasury Star Parade, ed. by William A. Bacher
A Child is Born - 1942 - broadcast
They Burned the Books - 1942 - broadcast

These works were published posthumously:

Western Star - 1943 - unfinished
Twenty Five Short Stories - 1943
America - 1944
O'Halloran's Luck and Other Short Stories - 1944
We Stand United - 1945 - radio scripts
The Bishop's Beggar - 1946
The Last Circle - 1946
Selected Stories - 1947
From the Earth to the Moon - 1958.                          
Brother of William Rose Benét                          
1929 - Pulitzer Prize for poetry
1944 - Pulitzer Prize for poetry