BOOKS - Young People's Pride
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701190
Young People's Pride
Author: Stephen Vincent Benet
Year: 2015
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 704 KB
Language: English
Year: 2015
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 704 KB
Language: English
Stephen Vincent Benet 22 July 189813 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 US Army and hence he grew up in California and Georgia He attended Yale starting in 1915 and that same year published his first book of poems Five Men and Pompey Young Adventure 1918 is considered his first mature book of poetry and he went on to win two Pulitzer Prizes in 1929 for John Browns 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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