John Brown's Body
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1928.
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. First edition. Very good with spine ends and corners bumped. Address label on front and rear endpapers. A narrative poem that was the winner of the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
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Stephen Vincent Benet
birth name: Stephen Vincent Benet
born: 7/22/1898
died: 3/13/1943
Biography
Poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, best known for John Brown's Body (1928), a long narrative poem on the Civil War... Benet's best-known short story, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1937), was the basis for a play, and opera by Douglas Moore, ad a motion picture. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore