Stephen Vincent Benet

Henry Raleigh

Stephen Vincent Ben�t (July 22, 1898 - March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936) and "By the Waters of Babylon" (1937). In 2009, The Library of America selected Ben�t's story "The King of the Cats" (1929) for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales edited by Peter Straub.Ben�t was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to James Walker Ben�t, a colonel in the United States Army, and his wife. His grandfather and namesake was a Minorcan descendant born in St. Augustine, Florida who led the U.S. Army Ordnance Corps from 1874 to 1891 with the rank of brigadier general, a graduate of the United States Military Academy who served in the American Civil War. The younger Ben�t's paternal uncle Laurence Vincent Ben�t was an ensign in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War who later manufactured the French-Hotchkiss machine gun.

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