Who Is Stephen Vincent

Stephen Vincent BenétDiedMarch 13, 1943 (aged 44) New York CityOccupationWriterNationalityAmericanAlma materYale University

What is Stephen Vincent Benet known for?

Stephen Vincent Benét, (born July 22, 1898, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died March 13, 1943, New York, New York), American poet, novelist, and writer of short stories, best known for John Brown’s Body, a long narrative poem on the American Civil War.

What did Stephen Benet write instead of a senior thesis?

Benét was considerably less diligent in his class work than in his extracurricular writing, submitting instead of a traditional M.A. thesis, a group of poems that was published as Heavens and Earth by Holt in 1920.