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Stephen Vincent Benét

Stephen Vincent Benét was born July 22, 1898, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, into a military family. His father had a wide appreciation for literature, and Benét's siblings, William Rose and Laura, also became writers. Benét attended Yale University where he published two collections of poetry, Five Men and Pompey (1915), The Drug-Shop (1917). His studies were interrupted by a year of civilian military service; he worked as a cipher-clerk in the same department as James Thurber. He graduated from Yale in 1919, submitting his third volume of poems in place of a thesis. He published his first novel The Beginning of Wisdom in 1921. Benét then moved to France to continue his studies at the Sorbonne and returned to the United States in 1923 with his new wife, the writer Rosemary Carr.

Benét was successful in many different literary forms, which included novels, short stories, screenplays, radio broadcasts, and a libretto for an opera by Douglas Moore based on "The Devil and Daniel Webster." His most famous work is the long poem John Brown's Body for whic

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David Garrett Izzo has published five novels, three plays, five short stories, 17 individual poems, and a volume of poetry, as well as 17 books and 60 essays of literary scholarship. David has published extensively on the Perennial Spiritual Philosophy of Mysticism (Vedanta) as applied to literature. He is inspired by Aldous Huxley, Bruce Springsteen, his wife Carol and their five cats: Huxley, Max, Princess, Phoebe, and Luca. Two of his novels are fantasies with cats as characters: Maximus in Catland and Purring Heights. His new volume of verse, Permutations Among the Nightingales, early 2017. www.davidgarrettizzo.com

Advance Praise:

With remarkable elan, David Garrett Izzo unfolds the secret origami of our minds and constitutions in his new book, Permutations among the Nightingales. It’s a fierce collection of philosophical raps, tributes to culture heroes, and the naked autobiography of a man to whom life has given both great pain and great pleasure. Reading Izzo’s poems, you wind up in unexpected places, for he is one of the great secrets of American literature.

Kevin Killi

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Stephen Vincent Benét was an American writer who packed a great deal into his relatively short lifetime which spanned the first half of the 20^th century. Remarkably he had his first collection of poems published when aged only 17 and his final, epic piece of work (Western Star), won him the Pulitzer Prize even though it was unfinished when he died in 1943. The award was posthumous and recognised the significance of Benét’s view that the dominant force in American history up to that time was the frontier.

He was born in July 1898 in the town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Benét’s family history was pretty much military-based. His father was a Colonel in the US Army and his mother came from a military family in Kentucky. Almost inevitably, Stephen was sent to a military academy with his parents, no doubt, hoping that he would continue the family tradition of soldiering. Perhaps he was too young, having been sent there at the age of ten. He just did not take to the environment, disliking the overt brutality of the place. He later wrote a poem about school brutality, substituting th