Person Detail: Stephen Vincent Benet

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General Information:
Full Name: Stephen Vincent Benet
Biography: (1898-1943) Writer, poet. Stephen Vincent Benet lived at the Watervliet Arsenal during two separate periods. In 1998 the United States Postal Service issued its fifteenth stamp in the Literary Arts series in honor of Stephen Vincent Benet.
Author's Timeline:
1898		(Unknown) County Stephen Vincent Benet was born in Fountain Hill, near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1898.
1915		(Unknown) County Five Men And Pompey Collection of verse.
1920		(Unknown) County Heavens and Earth Poetry.
1921		(Unknown) County The Beginning Of Wisdom Autobiographical novel.
1922		(Unknown) County Young People's Pride Novel.
1923		(Unknown) County Jean Huguenot Novel.
1926		(Unknown) County Spanish Bayonet Novel.
1928		(Unknown) County John Brown's Body Poem; winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1929.
1931		(Unknown) County Ballads And Poems
1933		(Unknown) County A Book Of Americans
1934		(Unknown) County James Shore's Daughter Novel.
1936		(Unknown) County The Burning City
1937		(Unknown) County The Devil And Daniel Webster
1937		(Unknown) County The Headless Horseman One-act play.
1937		(Unknown) County Thirteen O'clock Short story collection including "The Devil And Daniel Webster."
1939		(Unknown) County Tales Before Midnight
1943		New York County Stephen Vincent Benet died in New York City in 1943.
1943		(Unknown) County Western Star Posthumously published. Pulitzer Prize, 1944.
1943		(Unknown) County Stephen Vincent Benet is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery, Stonington, Connecticut.
1946		(Unknown) County The Last Circle
?		Albany County Benet lived at the Watervliet Arsenal during two separate periods. He was a graduate of The Albany Academy in Albany, New York.