Benet, Stephen Vincent

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Born: Jul 22, 1898 AD
Died: 1943 AD, at 44 years of age.

Nationality: American
Categories: Authors, Poets


1898 - Born on the 22nd of July in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, United States. American author, poet, short story writer and novelist.

1908 - At the age of about ten, Benét was sent to the Hitchcock Military Academy.

1919 - 1920 - Graduated from The Albany Academy in Albany, New York and Yale University.

1920 - Member of Wolf's Head Society and the power behind the Yale Lit, according to Thornton Wilder.

1928 - 1943 - Wrote narrative poem "John Brown's Body"  (Pulitzer Prize for poetry), short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster", verse history "Western Star".

1943 - He died on 31st of March in New York City because of heart Failure.

1944 - Awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for "Western Star", an unfinished narrative poem on the settling of America.

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