BENET, Stephen Vincent

BENET, Stephen Vincent
(1898-1943)
   US writer, mainly of poetry and stories, much published in the Saturday Evening Post. He is best known for a single poem, "American Names" (whose last line, "Bury my heart at Wounded Knee", gained a peculiar and singular resonance in the campaign for Amerindian rights), and for two fantasy stories, The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937 chap), also published with other fantasies in Thirteen O'Clock: Stories of Several Worlds (coll 1937), and Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer (1938 chap), also included with other fantasies in Tales Before Midnight (coll 1939). These collections were brought together to make up Twenty-Five Short Stories (coll 1943), though most of their contents had already appeared in the 2-vol Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benet (coll 1942; cut vt The Stephen Vincent Benet Pocket Book 1946). Several of SVB's stories are of genre interest, his best-known being "By the Waters of Babylon" (1937), a clever post- HOLOCAUST story about a tribal adolescent boy who discovers the ruins of a great destroyed city (Hyperlink to: CITIES). It was a main source of material for what became, after WWII, a cliched subgenre in the field.
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