originally published:
New York : Farrar and Rinehart
1943
awards:
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry(1944)
reference info
bio notes:
born: 7/22/1898 died: 3/13/1943 born as: Stephen Vincent Benet
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 Literature