Benét, William Rose
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1886-1950) US anthologist, editor, poet and author, brother of Stephen Vincent Benét; most famous as editor for founding in 1924 and editing until his death the Saturday Review of Literature, and for The Reader's Encyclopedia (1948; often revised). He is of modest sf interest for The Flying King of Kurio: A Story for Children (1926), a portal fantasy whose protagonists enter a secondary world unusually high in Technology, including an Airship. [JC]
William Rose Benét
born Brooklyn [now New York]: 2 February 1886
died New York: 4 May 1950
works (highly selected)
- The Flying King of Kurio: A Story for Children (New York: George H Dorant Company, 1926) [illus/hb/Janet Smalley]
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