William Rose Benet
1886 - 1950
General Information
Bio
(1886-1950) Poet, editor. William Rose Benet was born in Fort Hamilton, New York. He graduated from Yale in 1907, held several positions in the publishing field, and in 1920 became associate editor of the Literary Review of the New York Post. Four years later he resigned to become one of the founders of the Saturday Review of Literature, which became the Saturday Review. In 1932 he collected the poetry of his second wife, Elinor Wylie, into a single volume, and in 1938, with Norman Holmes Pearson, edited the Oxford Anthology of American Literature. His brother was Stephen Vincent Benet. His fourth wife was the children’s writer Marjorie Flack.
Full Name
William Rose Benet
Locations
Nassau
Author's Timeline
Unknown
RESIDENCE
Unknown
OTHER
1886
BIRTH
1913
LITWORK
New York: The Century Company
1914
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Yale University Press
1916
LITWORK
Yale University Press
Narrative poem.
1918
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Yale University Press
Poetry.
1919
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Yale University Press
1922
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George H. Doran
Novel.
1929
LITWORK
New York: Random House
Poetry.
1932
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Verse novel.
1941
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Dodd, Mead & Company
Autobiographical poem, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1942.
1944
LITWORK
Alfred A. Knopf
Poetry.
1947
LITWORK
Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
Poetry.
1950
DEATH
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