Person Detail: William Rose Benet
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| Full Name: William Rose Benet | ||
| Biography: (1886-1950) Poet, editor. William Rose Benet was born in Fort Hamilton, New York. He graduated from Yale in 1907, held several positions in the publishing field, and in 1920 became associate editor of the Literary Review of the New York Post. Four years later he resigned to become one of the founders of the Saturday Review of Literature, which became the Saturday Review. In 1932 he collected the poetry of his second wife, Elinor Wylie, into a single volume, and in 1938, with Norman Holmes Pearson, edited the Oxford Anthology of American Literature. His brother was Stephen Vincent BenÉt. |
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| Year: 1886 | Event: BIRTH |
Kings County William Rose Benet was born in Fort Hamilton, New York. |
| Year: 1913 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County Merchants from Cathay |
| Year: 1914 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County The Falconer of God |
| Year: 1916 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County The Great White Wall |
| Year: 1918 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County The Burglar of the Zodiac |
| Year: 1919 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County Perpetual Light |
| Year: 1922 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County First Person Singular Novel |
| Year: 1929 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County Sagacity |
| Year: 1932 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County Riptide Verse Novel |
| Year: 1941 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County The Dust Which is God Autobiographical poem, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1942 |
| Year: 1944 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County Days of Deliverance |
| Year: 1947 | Event: LITWORK |
(Unknown) County Timothy's Angels |
| Year: 1950 | Event: DEATH |
(Unknown) County William Rose Benet died in New York City in 1950. |
| Year: ? | Event: RESIDENCE |
Nassau County William Rose Benet lived in Port Washington, New York. |
| Year: ? | Event: OTHER |
Albany County Benet was educated the Albany Academy in Albany, New York. |
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