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Stephen Vincent Benét

1898 - 1943

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Stephen Vincent Benét ( bə-NAY; July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body, published in 1928, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster", published in 1936, and "By the Waters of Babylon", published in 1937. In 2009, Library of America selected his story "The King of the Cats", published in 1929, for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales, edited by Peter Straub. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Stephen Vincent Benét is the 6,321st most popular writer (down from 6,184th in 2019), the 11,585th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,634th in 2019) and the 841st most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Stephen Vincent Benét ranks 6,321 out of 7,302. Before him are John Clellon Holmes, Christopher Smart, Rosa María Britton, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Max Hastings, and Thomas Lodge. After him are J. G. Farrell, Stephen R. Donaldson, Philip Massinger, Andreas Eschbach, Adam Elliot, and Marit Paulsen.

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Among people born in 1898, Stephen Vincent Benét ranks 302. Before him are Rachel Fuller Brown, Baby Dodds, Ewald Balser, Owen Barfield, Harry Edward, and Roy Harris. After him are Tom Whittaker, Gracie Fields, Wiley Post, Molly Picon, Ludwig Bemelmans, and Harold Stephen Black. Among people deceased in 1943, Stephen Vincent Benét ranks 232. Before him are Reginald McKenna, Alexander Hall, Montagu Love, Herbert Roper Barrett, Tully Marshall, and Valeriya Gnarovskaya. After him are Arthur Streeton, Foy Draper, Hobart Bosworth, George Moorhouse, Cornelia Fort, and Louisa Garrett Anderson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stephen Vincent Benét ranks 11,587 out of 20,380. Before him are F. Gary Gray (1969), Charles Manring (1929), Lamar Odom (1979), Susan Pedersen (1953), Joe Hunt (1919), and Dustin Farnum (1874). After him are Jo Jorgensen (1957), Dennis Chambers (1959), Dominique Swain (1980), Michael Gaston (1962), Ormond Stone (1847), and Kevin Chamberlin (1963).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Stephen Vincent Benét ranks 841. Before him are Meg Cabot (1967), N. Scott Momaday (1934), Abby Mann (1927), Eric Van Lustbader (1946), John Clellon Holmes (1926), and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896). After him are Stephen R. Donaldson (1947), Albert Maltz (1908), Richard Wilbur (1921), Gay Talese (1932), Ellen Glasgow (1873), and George Alec Effinger (1947).

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