About Stephen Vincent Benet

Stephen Vincent Benet was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown’s Body, published in 1928, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, published in 1936, and “By the Waters of Babylon”, published in 1937.

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