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    The Way We Were: Benet took the past and turned it into prose

    There are not many Augustans featured on a U.S. postage stamp.

    There are not many Augustans who won the pris Prize. Twice.

    There are not many Augustans who came from military families, but were limited from combat by poor eyesight … so they served instead as a crack codebreaker.

    That’s because there’s only one Stephen Vincent Benet.

    Born in 1898, Benet was considered one of America’s great writers in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s.

    He wrote poetry, fiction, short stories, screen plays and radio scripts.

    He did all that in a very short life before dying of a heart attack in 1943.

    His second Pulitzer was awarded posthumously for a poem that was incomplete. To be honored so highly for a work that wasn’t even finished, you have to be pretty well thought of, and Benet certainly was.

    His grand themes of American expansion, patriotism and popular myths, are perhaps considered outdated today, but in his day, he was a lit

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    There is rust on the land.
    A rust and a creeping blight and a scaled evil,
    For six years eating, yet deeper than those six years,
    Men labor to master it but it is not mastered.

    Poet Stephen Vincent Benet, 1929.

    In these words, Pennsylvania-born poet Stephen Vincent Benét described the Great Depression in his 1933 poem, "Is it Well with these States?" In the 1930s, Benét was one of a number of American writers and artists whose works contained social commentary that reinforced the public's perception of the collapse of the old social order. By using legendary folk heroes, national symbols and icons, and historical events, he and his contemporaries attempted to illustrate the common values and experiences of Americans. They sought what anthropologist Ruth Benedict described as "what it means to be a culture" or, what is the "American Way."

    Benét was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1898. As the son of a U. S. Army officer he moved around dur

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    Stephen Vincent Benét

    Poet, short story writer, novelist (1898–1943)

    Not to be confused with Stephen Vincent Benét (general) or Vincent Bennett.

    Stephen Vincent Benét

    Benét at Yale College in 1919

    Born(1898-07-22)July 22, 1898
    Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, U.S.
    DiedMarch 13, 1943(1943-03-13) (aged 44)
    New York City, U.S.
    OccupationWriter
    EducationYale University (BA, MA)
    Period20th century
    GenrePoetry, short story, novel
    Notable worksJohn Brown's Body (1929)
    The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936)
    By the Waters of Babylon (1937)
    Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) (adapted from Benét's story The Sobbin' Women)
    Notable awardsPulitzer Prize for Poetry (1929)
    O. Henry Award (1937)
    Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1944, posthumous)
    Spouse

    Rosemary Carr

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    (m. 1921)​
    Children3
    RelativesWilliam Rose Benét (brother)
    Laura Benét (sister)

    Stephen Vincent Benét (bə-NAY; July 22