Author:Stephen Vincent Benét

Stephen Vincent Benét
(1898–1943)

Stephen Vincent Benét

Works

• Five Men and Pompey, a series of dramatic portraits (1915)
• Heavens and Earth (1920)
• The Beginnings of Wisdom (1921) novel
• Young People's Pride (1922) novel
• Nerves (1924) play
• That Awful Mrs. Eaton (1924) play
• Spanish Bayonet (1926)
• The Gold Dress (1942) — Copyrighted in the United States until 1938.

Poetry

• The Drug-Shop (1917)
• Young Adventure (1918)
• The Ballad of William Sycamore: A Poem (1923)
• King David: A two-hundred-line ballad in six parts (1923)
• Tiger Joy: A Book of Poems (1925)
• John Brown's Body (1928) 1929 Pulitzer Prize winner (transcription project)

Short stories

• "Too Early Spring"
• "The Story About The Anteater"
• "The Last Of The Legions"
• "The King Of The Cats" (1929)
• "The Die Hard"
• "The Curfew Tolls"
• "The Blood Of The Martyrs"
• "Schooner Fairchild's Class"
• "O' Halloran's Luck"
• "No Visitors"
• "Johnny Pye And The Fool Killer"
• "Jacob And The Indians"
• "Into Egypt"
• "Glamour"
• "Freedom's A Hard Bought Thing"
• "Everybody Was Very Nice"
• "Doc Mellhorn And The Pearly Gates"
• "By The Waters Of Babylon" (1937)
• "All Around The Town"
• "A Tooth For Paul Revere"
• "A Death In The Country"
• "The Devil And Daniel Webster" (1936)

Works from periodicals

• "Desert Air" (1903 Aug, Outing) ss
• "Young People's Pride" (1922 June, etc, Harper's Bazar) (4-part serial)
• "Yacobson" (1922 Oct, The Red Book Magazine) ss
• "Sir Willie of the Valley" (1923 Feb, Harper's Bazar) ss
• "The Golden Bessie" (1923 June, Everybody's Magazine) ss
• "Thicker Than Water" (1924 May, Cosmopolitan) ss
• "Uriah's Son", The Red Book Magazine, 1924 May (ss)
• "The Raveled Sleeve" (1924 Oct, Cosmopolitan) ss
• "Miranda, the Measles and Marmaduke" (1924 Dec, The Red Book Magazine) ss

Non-fiction and poems

• "Jaufre Rudel Beholds the Lady of Tripoli" (1919 May, Ainslee's Magazine) poem
• "Is the Costume Drama Dead?" (1924 Dec, The Bookman) article