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Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898, Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, United StatesMarch 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer and novelist. He is best known for his 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" and "By the Waters of Babylon". This is his biography.
