Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)

Author of John Brown's Body

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About the Author

A poet, dramatist, and short story writer, Stephen Vincent Benet was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1898 and attended Yale University. A Guggenhein Fellowship in 1926 enabled him to work in Paris on a long poem that appeared two years later and received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1928). show more The poem John Brown's Body brought Benet instant popularity. This narrative history of the Civil War in rhyme and blank verse told from the point of view of ordinary people of both the North and the South is a remarkable epic of the United States. Although Benet had enormously influential on other poets, notably the Harlem Renaissance writer Anne Spencer, and despite his wide popular audience, he has not received high praise from academic critics. Benet died in 1943. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Stephen Vincent Benét

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John Brown's Body (1965) 893 copies

Western Star, a Book of Poetry (1943) 163 copies

Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét, Volumes 1-2: Poetry and Prose (1942) 126 copies

A Book of Americans (1933) 117 copies

Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét, Volume 1: Poetry (1942) 114 copies

Johnny Appleseed (2001) 110 copies

The Devil and Daniel Webster [short fiction] (1937) 101 copies

Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét, Volume 2: Prose (1942) 91 copies

The Devil and Daniel Webster and Other Writings (1979) 88 copies

By the Waters of Babylon [short story] (1986) 50 copies

The Stephen Vincent Benét Pocket Book (1946) 40 copies

The Devil and Daniel Webster {play} (1939) 39 copies

The Devil and Daniel Webster and Other Stories (1936) 37 copies

America (1940) 33 copies

Twenty-Five Short Stories of Stephen Vincent Benét (1943) 26 copies

Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds (1971) 21 copies

The ballad of William Sycamore, 1790-1871 (1972) 18 copies

The Last Circle: Short Stories and Poems (1946) 18 copies

James Shore's Daughter (1934) 17 copies

The Week-End Library Issue of 1930 (1930) 11 copies

Burning City: New Poems (1936) 11 copies

Tiger Joy: A Book of Poems (2014) 10 copies

We Stand United and Other Radio Scripts (1945) 9 copies

Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer (1938) 7 copies

The Sobbin' Women (2015) 7 copies

The Bishop's Beggar (1952) 7 copies

O'Halloran's Luck and Other Short Stories (1944) 6 copies

The King of the Cats 6 copies

Ballads and Poems, 1915-1930 (1931) 6 copies

The Beginning of Wisdom (2005) 4 copies

Young Adventure, a Book of Poems (1990) 4 copies

The Place of the Gods 4 copies

The Litter of the Rose Leaves 4 copies

They Burned the Books (1942) 4 copies

A Child Is Born (2016) 4 copies

A Tooth for Paul Revere [short story] 4 copies

Gettysburg: High Water Mark of the Confederacy (1963) 3 copies

Sing a Song of Americans: Fifteen Songs from “A Book of Americans” (1941) 3 copies

The Curfew Tolls 3 copies

Jean Huguenot (1923) 3 copies

Zero Hour: A Summons to the Free (1977) 3 copies

The Last Legion 2 copies

Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing 2 copies

The Lilies of the Field; A Family on Wheels; St. Teresa of Avila; The Bishop’s Beggar (from The Last Circle) 2 copies

Spanish Bayonet (1926) 2 copies

The Blood of the Martyrs 2 copies

The Die-Hard 2 copies

The Story about the Anteater 2 copies

Glamour 2 copies

Stephen Vincent Benét on Writing 2 copies

Everybody Was Very Nice 2 copies

Premium Collection: 20 Short Stories & Novels 37 Poems (2014) 2 copies

A Death in the Country 2 copies

Doc Mellhorn and the Pearly Gates 2 copies

Jacob and the Indians 2 copies

O'Halloran's Luck 2 copies

Tales before midnight 2 copies

Nightmare at Noon 2 copies

Historia sucinta de los Estados Unidos (1965) 2 copies

By the Waters of Babylon, and Other Fantasies and Prophecies (2014) 2 copies

Nightmare 2 copies

The Angel Was a Yankee 2 copies

Western Wagons 1 copy

The Ballad of Leif the Lucky 1 copy

Daniel Boone 1 copy

Salem Massachusetts 1 copy

The Magic of Poetry and the Poet's Art 1 copy

George Washington {poem} (1935) 1 copy

The Devil and Daniel Webster / Freedom's a Hard-Bought Thing / Jacob and the Indians 1 copy

1954 ILLUSTRATED EDITION EPIC CIVIL WAR POEM JOHN BROWN'S BODY WITH DJ GIFT IDEA 1 copy

LE ROI DES CHATS / COLLECTION CAPRICONE. 1 copy

The Barefoot Saint 1 copy

Blossom and Fruit 1 copy

Nightmare Number Three [poem] (1935) 1 copy

Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent 1 copy

The Treasure of Vasco Gomez 1 copy

A Story by Angela Poe 1 copy

Selected Works Of Stephen Vincent Benet: Volume One, Poetry 1 copy

The Three Fates 1 copy

Famous 1 copy

Männer der Forschung in Amerika. (1944) 1 copy

Good Picker 1 copy

The Prodigal Children 1 copy

This Bright Dream 1 copy

William Riley and the Fates 1 copy

The Danger of Shadows 1 copy

The Gold Dress 1 copy

The Land Where There Is No Death 1 copy

Into Egypt 1 copy

As It Was in the Beginning 1 copy

The Minister's Books 1 copy

The Captives 1 copy

Schooner Fairchild's Class 1 copy

All Around The Town 1 copy

St. Thomas Aqunas 1 copy

Too Early Spring 1 copy

The Short Stories of Stephen Vincent Benét 1 copy

2000x: By the Waters of Babylon 1 copy

Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet - Volume one Poetry, Volume two Prose 1 copy

Annual Report of the Chief of Ordnance to the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1880. (1880) 1 copy

Power and the Land [1940 short film] (1940) — Screenwriter — 1 copy

Five Men and Pompey: A Series of Dramatic Portraits (2009) 1 copy

No Visitors 1 copy

Young People's Pride (2011) 1 copy

Stephen Vincent Benét, Collection (Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds, John Brown's Body,… (2013) 1 copy

New England: Indian Summer 1 copy

Selected letters 1 copy

The Devil and Daniel Webster, and Other Tales of American History (2014) 1 copy

King David 1 copy

A Gentleman of Fortune 1 copy

Louis Agassiz 1 copy

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