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==Life and Works==

==Life and Works==

Benét was born February 2, 1886, in Brooklyn, New York, but was raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and attended [[Yale University]].<ref>http://pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Benet__William_Rose.html</ref>  He was a founding member and contributor to the ''Saturday Review of Literature'' and wrote many volumes of poetry, including ''Merchants from Cathay'' (1913), ''The Great White Wall'' (1916), and ''A Man Possessed'' (1927).<ref>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/william-rose-benet</ref>  He married four times and fathered at least three children.<ref>https://www.poemhunter.com/william-rose-benet/biography/</ref>  His best known work, however, is likely ''The Dust Which is God'', a partially autobiographical novel which states that man changes himself from dust via affirmation.<ref>http://www.worldcat.org/title/dust-which-is-god/oclc/12647271</ref>  He created his own encyclopedia, ''The Reader's Encyclopedia'' in 1948, and died on May 4, 1950, in New York City.<ref>http://pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Benet__William_Rose.html</ref>

Benét was born February 2, 1886, in Brooklyn, New York, but was raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and attended [[Yale University]].<ref>http://pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Benet__William_Rose.html</ref>  He was a founding member and contributor to the ''Saturday Review of Literature'' and wrote many volumes of poetry, including ''Merchants from Cathay'' (1913), ''The Great White Wall'' (1916), and ''A Man Possessed'' (1927).<ref>"William Rose Benét."  ''Poetry Foundation''. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/william-rose-benet</ref>  He married four times and fathered at least three children.<ref>"William Rose Benét." ''Poem Hunter, Biography''. https://www.poemhunter.com/william-rose-benet/biography/</ref>  His best known work, however, is likely ''The Dust Which is God'', a partially autobiographical novel which states that man changes himself from dust via affirmation.<ref>"Dust Which is God."

''Worldcat''. http://www.worldcat.org/title/dust-which-is-god/oclc/12647271</ref>  He created his own encyclopedia, ''The Reader's Encyclopedia'' in 1948, and died on May 4, 1950, in New York City.<ref>http://pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Benet__William_Rose.html</ref>

==References==

==References==

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[[Category:American Authors]]

[[Category:American Authors]]