Stephen Vincent Benét
/ˌstiːvn ˌvɪnsnt bəˈneɪ/
/ˌstiːvn ˌvɪnsnt bəˈneɪ/
- (1898-1943) a US writer of poems and novels. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his best-known poem John Brown's Body (1928) about the American Civil War. His brother, William Benét (1886-1950) was also a successful poet.