Perpetual Light

William Rose Benét was born on 2nd February 1886 in Brooklyn, New York. For at least the previous two generations the family had distinguished itself in the military. But now Benét, along with his younger and more famous brother Stephen Vincent, would bring the Pulitzer Prize to the family’s history. Benét was educated The Albany Academy in Albany and then Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, graduating with a Ph.B. in 1907. At Yale, he edited and contributed light verse to its on-cam