Their marriage lasted from 1941 to his death in 1950. His third marriage was to Lora Baxter (1932-1937), and his last marriage was to Marjorie Flack, an author and illustrator of children's books. They were married from 1923 until her death in 1928. He had another child with the poet Elinor Wylie.
He had three children with Teresa Thompson (sister to the novelist Kathleen Thompson Norris), who died during the influenza pandemic in 1919, just seven years after they were married. He was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for The Dust Which is God, an autobiographical verse narrative. He wrote for Century Magazine, the Saturday Review of Literature, and published several books of poems, and one novel. William Rose Benét was an author and poet as well. She received and award from the National Poetry Center in 1936, and an honorary degree from Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1967. She worked as a settlement worker at the Spring Street Settlement in New York City, 1915-1917 as a placement worker at the Children's Aid Society, New York City a sanitary inspector for the American Red Cross, Augusta, Georgia, 1917-1919 a secretary and assistant book page editor at the New York Evening Post an editor at the New York Sun as a book review editor's assistant and book review substitute at the New York Times and as a free-lance writer from 1930 until her death. Laura Benét employed herself as a social worker, newspaper editor, poet and author. Stephen, who was much younger, attended Hitchcock Academy in California while his father was stationed in Benicia, then followed his brother to Yale. Laura went to Vassar College to continue her education, and William went to Yale. It was while the family was at the Watervliet Arsenal, that the boys were sent to Albany Academy (then a military school), and Laura attended the Emma Willard School in Troy. They also spent periods with Colonel Benét's grandparents in Washington, D.C., and lived for several years in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Buffalo, New York. Both father and son managed ordnance, and because of this, Laura, William and Stephen spent much of their early childhood living at a series of arsenals: Fort Hamilton on the shores of the New York Harbor, the Springfield Armory in Massachusetts, the Frankfort Arsenal near Philadelphia, the Watervliet Arsenal near Albany, and finally the Benicia Arsenal in California. Army, following in the footsteps of his father, the first Stephen Vincent Benét, a brigadier general. James Walker Benét was a colonel in the U.S. Laura, William Rose, and Stephen Vincent Benét were the children of James Walker Benét and Frances Neill Rose.
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