The Devil and Daniel Webster is a short tale written by a certain Stephen Vincent Benét. This is actually a derivation from Washington Irving’s and “The Devil and Tom Walker.” This story is about a farmer who sold his soul to the devil and is defended by Daniel W..
The story was published in 1937 by Farrar & Rinehart. In 1938, it appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and won an O. Henry award that same year. The author would adapt it in 1938 into a folk opera with music by Douglas Stuart Moore, a fellow alumnus of Yale University, member Wolf’s Head Society, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and winner of a Pulitzer Prize. Benét also worked on the screenplay adaptation for the 1941 RKO Pictures film.
