John Brown's Body

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning epic poem John Brown's Body (1928) on the Civil War and the short story \"The Devil and Daniel Webster\" (1936). Born in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, to a military family, he published his first poetry collection at 17, studied at Yale, and produced over 17 volumes of prose and verse, including a posthumous Pulitzer for Western Star (1944).