Autograph Letter Boldly Signed (Advice to a Young Writer)
- Used
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA
AbeBooks seller since May 14, 1998
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 497.56
Quantity: 1 available
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("Stephen Vincent Benet") New York, 220 East 69th Street letterhead, n.d. to Mr. Oliver. 4 pages (2 two sheets). 6 3/4" x 5 1/2". A long good letter to a writer asking Benet if he was influenced by his English Department and other authors, etc. in his writing career. Very good. Benet died at age 44 of a heart attack. His letters are uncommon. In part: " - I think the colleges - or the ones I know - are probably doing as much about writing as they can. You cannot force writers like early peas - writing is about life. And all life can't be in a college - " Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943), born July 22, 1898, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; died March 13, 1943; American author, poet, short story writer and novelist. Benet is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon". The films "All That Money Can Buy" (1941) and "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954) we based on his writings. …
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Autograph Letter Boldly Signed (Advice to a Young Writer)
- Author
- BENET, Stephen Vincent
- Condition
- Very Good
- Signed
- Inscribed by Author(s)
- Binding
- No Binding
- Seller catalogs
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