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Stephen Vincent Benét


USA flag (1898 - 1943)

Stephen Vincent Benét, poet, novelist, and short-story writer, was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. His Pulitzer Prize-winning poem John Brown's Body is still considered the quintessential American war poem. He was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1943.
 
 
Novels
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Collections
   Young Adventure (poems) (1918)
   Heavens and Earth (1920)
   King David (1923)
   Tiger Joy (poems) (1925)
   Ballads and Poems 1915-1930 (poems) (1931)
   Thirteen O'Clock (1932)
   A Book of Americans (poems) (1933) (with Rosemary Carr)
   Burning City (poems) (1936)
   The Magic of Poetry and the Poet's Art (1936)
   Tales Before Midnight (1939)
   Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet (1942)
   Twenty-Five Stories (1943)
   Western Star (1943)
   America (poems) (1944) (with Rosemary Carr)
   We Stand United and Other Radio Scripts (1945)
   The Last Circle (poems) (1946)
   The Stephen Vincent Benet Pocket Book (poems) (1946)
   Selected Poetry and Prose (poems) (1960)
   The Devil and Daniel Webster and Other Writings (1998)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Curfew Tolls (1935)
   Glamour (1935)
   By the Waters of Babylon (1937)
   The King of the Cats (1938)
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Stephen Vincent Benét recommends
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Permit Me Voyage (1934)
James Agee
"Here is both beauty and indignation... fine music and a sharp, fertile originality of mind."

Anthologies containing stories by Stephen Vincent Benét
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Sense of Wonder (2023)
A Century of Science Fiction
edited by
Leigh Ronald Grossman
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Demons (2011)
Encounters with the Devil and His Minions, Fallen Angels, and the Possessed
edited by
John M Skipp
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American Fantastic Tales (2009)
Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps
edited by
Peter Straub

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