2 Quotes & Sayings By William Rose Benet

William Rose Benet was born on February 18, 1899 in New York City. He attended Columbia University, where he received a degree in chemistry. After graduation he worked as a chemist for the textile mill of his uncle. He married his cousin Elisabeth Penrose on April 26, 1923, with whom he had two children, Daphne and Hugh Read more

He became an avid sailor and spent much of his time sailing with family and friends across the Atlantic Ocean. His first published poem was "The Three Blind Mice" which appeared in the December 11, 1922 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. A few months later he published "The Gift of the Magi," which was included in his 1925 collection of verse entitled "Fables." In 1930 he published his first novel "What Makes Life Worth Living." His second novel was "The Dark Tower," written under the pseudonym William Wilson.

He often used pen names to protect himself from detection by his publishers. Two years later he published another story, "The Ripening Season" using the name W. W.

Wilson. That same year he published "The Damnation of Theron Ware," again under the name W. W.

Wilson. In 1934 he also wrote a short story titled "Payment Deferred." The following year was when his career quickened when he began writing three novels per year under different names including William Wilson, W. W.

Wilson, Ronald Fowkerson, Edward Maitland, Viscount Ruebenwoode, John Gardner, Thomas Jefferson Whitehead, Percy Levingston and William Rose Benet. By 1937 alone he had written thirty-two novels using one or more pseudonyms including twenty-three novels under his own name while twelve were published under pseudonyms including five novels under Viscount Ruebenwoode, six under Edward Maitland, two under Ronald Fowkerson and two under Percy Levingston . For the next thirteen years (from 1927 until 1947) The Saturday Evening Post published all but one of his stories (the exception being 1943).

These were part of books entitled The Crime Club; The Law Club; The Army Club; The Navy Club; The Front Page; Men Only; Men at Arms; The Diplomatic Courier; One Hundred One Detective Stories; One Hundred One Detective Tales; Men Without Women; You Can't Win 'Em All; You Can't Lose 'Em All; The American Legion; Men Without Women (a book); Butler's Handy