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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 Benet. His fourth wife was the children's writer Marjorie Flack. |
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| 1913 |
(Unknown) County Merchants from Cathay (Pub: New York: The Century Company ISBN: ) |
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| 1914 |
(Unknown) County The Falconer of God (Pub: Yale University Press ISBN: ) |
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| 1916 |
(Unknown) County The Great White Wall (Pub: Yale University Press ISBN: ) Narrative poem. |
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| 1918 |
(Unknown) County The Burglar of the Zodiac (Pub: Yale University Press ISBN: ) Poetry. |
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| 1919 |
(Unknown) County Perpetual Light (Pub: Yale University Press ISBN: ) |
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| 1929 |
(Unknown) County Sagacity (Pub: New York: Random House ISBN: ) Poetry. |
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| 1944 |
(Unknown) County Day of Deliverance: A Book of Poems in Wartime (Pub: Alfred A. Knopf ISBN: ) Poetry. |
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| 1947 |
(Unknown) County Timothy's Angels (Pub: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. ISBN: ) Poetry. |
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| 1886 |
Kings County William Rose Benet was born in Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York, on February 2, 1886. |
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| 1950 |
(Unknown) County William Rose Benet died in New York City on May 4, 1950. |
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| 1922 |
(Unknown) County The First Person Singular (Pub: George H. Doran ISBN: ) Novel. |
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| 1932 |
(Unknown) County Riptide Verse novel. |
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| 1941 |
(Unknown) County The Dust Which is God (Pub: Dodd, Mead & Company ISBN: ) Autobiographical poem, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1942. |
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Nassau County William Rose Benet lived in Port Washington, New York. |
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Albany County Mr. Benet studied at the Albany Academy in Albany, New York. |
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