David Garrett Izzo is an emeritus professor of English who has published 16 books and 60 essays of literary scholarship, as well as three novels and two plays. He lives in Haw River, North Carolina. Lincoln Konkle is a professor at the College of New Jersey where he teaches American drama, modern drama, and creative writing. He lives in Ewing, New Jersey.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Introduction     Chronology     Invocation     LIFE, TIMES, PEOPLE1 A Son Remembers     2 Stephen and Rosemary: A Love Story     3 The Yale Club of Benét, Archibald MacLeish, and Thornton Wilder    4 The Charmed Circle of Benét: Philip Barry, Jed Harris, Thornton Wilder    POETRY, FICTION, DRAMA5 123 College Street: Benét and the Development of an Historical Poetry for America    6 John Brown’s Body and the Meaning of the Civil War     7 American History in the Short Stories of Benét and Hawthorne     8 Waking from Nightmares: Benét’s Faustian America     9 American Reincarnations: “The Devil and Daniel Webster” from Fiction to Drama to Film   10 Benét in the Twilight Zone: Fantasy and Science Fiction     11 Benét as Dramatist for Stage, Screen, and Radio     About the Contributors     Bibliography     Index

David Garrett Izzo is an emeritus professor of English who has published 16 books and 60 essays of literary scholarship, as well as three novels and two plays. He lives in Haw River, North Carolina. Lincoln Konkle is a professor at the College of New Jersey where he teaches American drama, modern drama, and creative writing. He lives in Ewing, New Jersey.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Introduction     Chronology     Invocation     LIFE, TIMES, PEOPLE1 A Son Remembers     2 Stephen and Rosemary: A Love Story     3 The Yale Club of Benét, Archibald MacLeish, and Thornton Wilder    4 The Charmed Circle of Benét: Philip Barry, Jed Harris, Thornton Wilder    POETRY, FICTION, DRAMA5 123 College Street: Benét and the Development of an Historical Poetry for America    6 John Brown’s Body and the Meaning of the Civil War     7 American History in the Short Stories of Benét and Hawthorne     8 Waking from Nightmares: Benét’s Faustian America     9 American Reincarnations: “The Devil and Daniel Webster” from Fiction to Drama to Film   10 Benét in the Twilight Zone: Fantasy and Science Fiction     11 Benét as Dramatist for Stage, Screen, and Radio     About the Contributors     Bibliography     Index

David Garrett Izzo is an emeritus professor of English who has published 16 books and 60 essays of literary scholarship, as well as three novels and two plays. He lives in Haw River, North Carolina. Lincoln Konkle is a professor at the College of New Jersey where he teaches American drama, modern drama, and creative writing. He lives in Ewing, New Jersey.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Introduction     Chronology     Invocation     LIFE, TIMES, PEOPLE1 A Son Remembers     2 Stephen and Rosemary: A Love Story     3 The Yale Club of Benét, Archibald MacLeish, and Thornton Wilder    4 The Charmed Circle of Benét: Philip Barry, Jed Harris, Thornton Wilder    POETRY, FICTION, DRAMA5 123 College Street: Benét and the Development of an Historical Poetry for America    6 John Brown’s Body and the Meaning of the Civil War     7 American History in the Short Stories of Benét and Hawthorne     8 Waking from Nightmares: Benét’s Faustian America     9 American Reincarnations: “The Devil and Daniel Webster” from Fiction to Drama to Film   10 Benét in the Twilight Zone: Fantasy and Science Fiction     11 Benét as Dramatist for Stage, Screen, and Radio     About the Contributors     Bibliography     Index