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Stephen Vincent Benét

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Stephen Vincent Benét is one of America's most popular short story authors. His The Devil and Daniel Webster is considered a classic, and his "An End to Dreams" appeared in Pictorial Review and won the O. Henry Award in 1932. Benét refused to follow the literary trends of his era, presenting instead in his work a more positive view of the American character in its historical moment. In his study...

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Stephen Vincent Bent Biographies (5)

Stephen Vincent Benét

616 words, approx. 3 pages

A poet and writer of fiction and dramatic adaptations, Stephen Vincent Benét (1898-1943) retold materials from American history, legend, and folklore with charm, humor, fervor, and a sense of t... Read more

Stephen Vincent Benet

654 words, approx. 3 pages

Stephen Vincent Benet drew upon American themes for his work, but his best-known poem, John Brown's Body (1928), was written in Paris. Benet was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the son of a professi... Read more

Stephen Vincent Benet

4,719 words, approx. 16 pages

Between the years 1928 and 1943, Stephen Vincent Benét was one of the best-known living American poets, more widely read than Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, or Wallace Steve... Read more

Stephen Vincent Benet

2,430 words, approx. 9 pages

Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Stephen Vincent Benét was the son of James Walker Benét, a career military officer, and his wife, Frances Neill Rose Benét. The travels of the fam... Read more

Stephen Vincent Benet

4,119 words, approx. 14 pages

Stephen Vincent Benét is best known as the author of the classic Civil War verse epic John Brown's Body (1928) and the much-anthologized short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936). Yet, ... Read more

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