BENE Stephen Vincent (Bent Stephen Vincent)

(1898-1943)
Born July 22, 1898 in Bethlehem (pc. Pennsylvania), the last child in the family of Colonel Dzh.U.Bene. The influence of the father and all the family military tradition is felt in the poet's personality and his work.
In 1919 he graduated from Yale University Bene. After serving in the State Department during the First World War, he returned to Yale University, where in 1920 received a Master of Arts. The following year he spent in Paris, wrote poetry and prose. Bene's talent developed early, as evidenced by skillfully constructed dramatic monologues in the Five and Pompeii (Five Men and Pompey, 1915) and published at the same time two collections of verse. In 1921 he shared with K. Sandburg Prize Poetic Society, and the novel beginning of wisdom (The Beginning of Wisdom) drew the attention of critics.

He married November 26, 1921 to Rosemary Carr, a talented writer from Chicago, Bene for 1920 published in periodicals, to a large family. Accustomed to the new means of expression, he revived the stale patterns of commercial fiction, giving the imagination, and I became interested in American history. The best known of his stories from the book The Devil and Daniel Webster (The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1937) and two great poem John Brown's Body (John Brown's Body, 1928) and The Western Star (Western Star, 1943).

Bene died in New York on March 13, 1943.