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170 Yale University Obituary Record
children, and one grandchild
WILLIAM ROSE BENET, Ph B 1907 Born February 2, 1886,
Fort Hamilton, N Y , died May 4, 1950, New York City
Father, Colonel James Walker Ben^t, USA Ret (grad U S
Military Academy 1880), son of Brigadier General Stephen Vmcent
Bene't and Laura (Walker) Benet Mother, Frances Neill (Rose) Bene't,
daughter of William John and Mary Lee (Mahon) Rose Yale relatives
include Laurence V Bene't, '84 S (uncle), Stephen Vincent Benet, '19
(brother), Thomas Carr Bene't, '49 (nephew)
Albany Academy Select course, editor Yale Record and chairman board Yale Courant Senior year, member Elizabethan Club
Free lance writer 1907-11, reader Century Magazine 1911-14,
assistant editor 1914-18, assistant editor The Nation's Business,
Washington, 1919-20, associate editor "Literary Review" New York
Evening Post 1920-24, a founder and associate editor weekly column
"The Phoenix Nest" Saturday Review of Literature 1924-29, contributing editor 1929-50, contributed to "The Conning Tower" New York
Herald Tribune, author Merchants from Cathay, Falconer of God,
Great White Wall, Burglar of the Zodiac, Perpetual Light, Moons of
'Grandeur, First Person Singular, Flying King of Kuno, Wild Goslings,
Man Possessed, Rip Tide, Starry Harness, Golden Fleece, With Wings
as Eagles, The Dust which is God (Pulitzer Prize 1942), Day of
Deliverance, A Book of Poems in Wartime, American Parable, Stairway of Surprise, Spirit of the Scene, My Brother Steve, Inheritance,
Day's End (National Playwnting Award 1939), coauthor Saturday
Papers, and Adolphus, editor Poetry of Freedom, Fifty Poets - An
American Auto-Anthology, Anthology of Famous English and American
Poetry, Prose and Poetry of Elinor Wyhe, Collected Poems of Elinor
Wyhe, Great Poems of the Enghsh Language, Reader's Encyclopedia,
The Chimaera, Poems for Youth, coeditor Twentieth-Century Poetry,
Oxford Anthology of American Literature, Poetry of Freedom, The
Stag's Hornbook, Adventures in English Literature, translator
Claudel's The East I Know, contributed to Encyclopaedia Bntannica and
many periodicals, vice-president National Institute of Arts and Letters
1944-46, secretary 1947-50, lecturer Mills College 1936 and 1937,
Hon M A Yale 1921, Litt D Dickinson College 1933, Second Lieutenant U S Air Service, World War I, member Episcopal church
Married (1) September 3, 1912, Port Washington, N Y ,
Teresa Frances, daughter of James Alden and Josephine (Moroney)
Thompson Children James Walker, 2d (B A Stanford 1935), Frances
Rosemary (Mrs Richard Smith Dawson), Kathleen Anne (Mrs. George
Blanchard Fry) Mrs Benet died 1919 Married (2) October 5, 1923,
Elinor Hoyt Hichborn Wyhe, daughter of Henry Martyn and Anne
| Title | Yb 65, Obituary Records of Graduates of Yale University Deceased During the Years 1945-1950 |
| Creator | Yale University |
| Place of Publication | New Haven, Connecticut (Conn.) |
| Date | 1945-1950 |
| Call Number | Yb 65 |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Yale University -- Biography |
| Type | Periodical |
| Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3036259 |
| Repository | Manuscripts and Archives |
| Repository URL | http://www.library.yale.edu/mssa |
| Series | Bulletin of Yale University |
| Title | Page 170 |
| Transcript | 170 Yale University Obituary Record children, and one grandchild WILLIAM ROSE BENET, Ph B 1907 Born February 2, 1886, Fort Hamilton, N Y , died May 4, 1950, New York City Father, Colonel James Walker Ben^t, USA Ret (grad U S Military Academy 1880), son of Brigadier General Stephen Vmcent Bene't and Laura (Walker) Benet Mother, Frances Neill (Rose) Bene't, daughter of William John and Mary Lee (Mahon) Rose Yale relatives include Laurence V Bene't, '84 S (uncle), Stephen Vincent Benet, '19 (brother), Thomas Carr Bene't, '49 (nephew) Albany Academy Select course, editor Yale Record and chairman board Yale Courant Senior year, member Elizabethan Club Free lance writer 1907-11, reader Century Magazine 1911-14, assistant editor 1914-18, assistant editor The Nation's Business, Washington, 1919-20, associate editor "Literary Review" New York Evening Post 1920-24, a founder and associate editor weekly column "The Phoenix Nest" Saturday Review of Literature 1924-29, contributing editor 1929-50, contributed to "The Conning Tower" New York Herald Tribune, author Merchants from Cathay, Falconer of God, Great White Wall, Burglar of the Zodiac, Perpetual Light, Moons of 'Grandeur, First Person Singular, Flying King of Kuno, Wild Goslings, Man Possessed, Rip Tide, Starry Harness, Golden Fleece, With Wings as Eagles, The Dust which is God (Pulitzer Prize 1942), Day of Deliverance, A Book of Poems in Wartime, American Parable, Stairway of Surprise, Spirit of the Scene, My Brother Steve, Inheritance, Day's End (National Playwnting Award 1939), coauthor Saturday Papers, and Adolphus, editor Poetry of Freedom, Fifty Poets - An American Auto-Anthology, Anthology of Famous English and American Poetry, Prose and Poetry of Elinor Wyhe, Collected Poems of Elinor Wyhe, Great Poems of the Enghsh Language, Reader's Encyclopedia, The Chimaera, Poems for Youth, coeditor Twentieth-Century Poetry, Oxford Anthology of American Literature, Poetry of Freedom, The Stag's Hornbook, Adventures in English Literature, translator Claudel's The East I Know, contributed to Encyclopaedia Bntannica and many periodicals, vice-president National Institute of Arts and Letters 1944-46, secretary 1947-50, lecturer Mills College 1936 and 1937, Hon M A Yale 1921, Litt D Dickinson College 1933, Second Lieutenant U S Air Service, World War I, member Episcopal church Married (1) September 3, 1912, Port Washington, N Y , Teresa Frances, daughter of James Alden and Josephine (Moroney) Thompson Children James Walker, 2d (B A Stanford 1935), Frances Rosemary (Mrs Richard Smith Dawson), Kathleen Anne (Mrs. George Blanchard Fry) Mrs Benet died 1919 Married (2) October 5, 1923, Elinor Hoyt Hichborn Wyhe, daughter of Henry Martyn and Anne |
