Download or read book Western Star written by Stephen Vincent Benet and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-01-23 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).