Western Star eBook

This narrative poem on the settling of the United States was awarded the Pulitzer Price posthumously in 1944. We are republishing this classic works with a new additional biography of the author. Benét was an accomplished writer at an early age, having had his first book published at 17. His best known works are the book-length narrative poem American Civil War, John Brown''s Body (1928), and two short stories, The Devil and Daniel Webster (1936) and By the Waters of Babylon (1937).