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Up for sale “Newspaper Editor” Laura Benét Hand Written Note On a 3X3.75 June 1884 –
17 February 1979), was an American social worker, biographer and newspaper editor. Laura Benét was born at Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, New York, on 13 June 1884. Her brothers both won the Pulitzer Prize, the writer William Rose Benét and
the poet Stephen Vincent Benét. She
graduated from the Emma Willard School in
1903 and, four years later, from Vassar College with an A.B. degree.
Benét was a settlement worker in New York City from 1913 to 1916 and then became an
inspector for the Red Cross Sanitary Commission during World War I. After the war, she returned home in 1919 to help
care for her brother William's three children after the death of his first
wife, Teresa Thompson (sister of the novelist Kathleen Thompson Norris), during
the flu pandemic. Benét
occasionally wrote for the Literary Review and then began writing biographies
for children and adults while working as a newspaper editor for the New York Sun and the New York Times. She mostly wrote literary biographies,
including ones on both of her brothers, and also compiled biographies
like Famous English and American Essayists. She wrote her memoir, When William Rose, Stephen Vincent, and I Were
Young, in 1976. Benét died in New York on 17 February 1979. She is buried
at Arlington National
Cemetery with her parents, U.S. Army Colonel James Walker Benét
(1857-1928) and Frances Neill Rose Benét (1860-1940).
