Honoring Stephen Vincent Benet, American Author, Poet, Short Story Writer and Novelist, Mystic USA

The First and Only United States Commemorative Postage Stamp Honoring Stephen Vincent Benet,

American Author, Poet, Short Story Writer and Novelist. Pulitzer Prize Winner 1929,

Works Include:

Five Men and Pompey, 1915
The Drug-Shop, 1917
Young Adventure, 1918
Heavens and Earth, 1920
The Beginnings of Wisdom, 1921
Young People's Pride, 1922
Jean Huguenot, 1923
The Ballad of William Sycamore, 1923
King David, 1923
Nerves, 1924 (with John Farrar)
That Awful Mrs. Eaton, 1924 (with John Farrar)
Tiger Joy, 1925
Spanish Bayonet, 1926
John Brown's Body, 1928
The Barefoot Saint, 1929
The Litter of Rose Leaves, 1930
Abraham Lincoln, 1930
A Book of Americans, 1933 (with Rosemary Carr Bent)
James Shore's Daughter, 1934
The Burning City, 1936 (includes 'Litany for Dictatorships')
The Magic of Poetry and the Poet's Art, 1936
By the Waters of Babylon, 1937
The Headless Horseman, 1937
Thirteen O'Clock, 1937
Johnny Pye and the Fool Killer, 1938
Tales Before Midnight, 1939
The Ballad of the Duke's Mercy, 1939
Nightmare at Noon, 1940
Elementals, 1940-41 (broadcast)
Freedom's Hard-Bought Thing, 1941 (broadcast)
Listen to the People, 1941
A Summons to the Free, 1941
Cheers for Miss Bishop, 1941 (screenplay with Adelaide Heilbron, Sheridan Gibney)
They Burned the Books, 1942
Selected Works, 1942 (2 vols.)
Short Stories, 1942
Nightmare at Noon, 1942 (in The Treasury Star Parade, ed. by William A. Bacher)
A Child is Born, 1942 (broadcast)
They Burned the Books, 1942 (broadcast)

Issued July 22, 1998 in Harpers, Ferry, West Virginia,

First Day of Issue Cover, FDC, Mystic Cachet, Ideal for Framing, Unaddressed,

Cover in Removable Transparent Poly Sleeve and Mailed With Protection,

Made in the USA


Genuine First Day of Stamp Issued Cover Cancelled on the First Day of Issue Date by the U.S. Postal Service,