Stephen Vincent Bene't (22 July 1898 - 13 March 1943) was from a family
with roots in Florida, which explains the Spanish name. Although born
in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, his father was a colonel in the U.S. Army,
and hence he grew up in California and Georgia. He attended Yale
starting in 1915 and that same year published his first of poems,
`Five Men and Pompey'. `Young Adventure' (1918) is considered
his first mature of poetry, and he went on to win two Pulitzer Prizes,
in 1929 for `John Brown's Body' and in 1944 for `Western Star'.
It appears that the whole family had great talents, as his grandfather
was a Brigadier General, his father a Colonel, and both Stephen
and his brother William Rose Benet won Pulitzer Prizes for poetry.
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