Publisher's Synopsis
Stephen Vincent Benet (July 22, 1898 - March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benet is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936) and "By the Waters of Babylon" (1937). In 2009, The Library of America selected Benet's story "The King of the Cats" (1929) for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub. Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds (1937) Blossom and Fruit A Death in the Country Everybody Was Very Nice Glamour Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent The Devil and Daniel Webster The Sobbin' Women The Curfew Tolls The Treasure of Vasco Gomez A Story by Angela Poe The King of the Cats The Blood of the Martyrs By the Waters of Babylon John Brown's Body Young Adventure, A Book of Poems Young People's Pride
