Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943)

Stephen Vincent Benét, an American poet and novelist, was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and studied at Yale University.

Among Benét's works are the volume of poetry Heavens and Earth (1920), the novels Young People's Pride (1922) and Spanish Bayonet (1926), a narrative poem about the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928) and Thirteen O'Clock (1937), a collection of short stories.

Benét won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1929, for John Brown's Body, which includes “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” which he adapted into a folk opera (1939) and was later made into a movie, All That Money Can Buy (1941). For Western Star (1943), an unfinished narrative poem, Benét won posthumous a second Pulitzer Prize in 1944.