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Stephen Vincent Benét ( July 22 , 1898 – March 13 , 1943 ) was a United States Author , Poet , Short Story Writer and Novelist . He is best known for his narrative poem of the American Civil War , ''John Brown's Body'', published in 1928 . He won a Pulitzer Prize for this work in 1929 . Benet's fantasy Short Story " The Devil And Daniel Webster " won an O. Henry Award , and he furnished the material for a one-act opera by Douglas Moore. Benét was born into an Army family in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania 's Lehigh Valley , and spent most of his boyhood in Benicia, California . At the age of about ten, Benét was sent to the Hitchcock Military Academy. A graduate of the Albany Academy in Albany, New York and Yale University , he was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for "''Western Star''", an unfinished narrative poem on the settling of America. It was a line of Benet's poetry that gave the title to Dee Brown 's famous history of the destruction of Native American tribes by the United States , '' Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee ''. His brother, William Rose Benét (1886–1950), was a poet, anthologist and critic who is largely remembered for his desk reference, ''The Reader's Cyclopedia'' (1948). SELECTED WORKS
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