Nathaniel Benchley (1915-1981) · AuthorAuthor
Nathaniel Benchley
1915-1981 · American novelist and journalist who also wrote children's books and easy-reader histories
About Nathaniel Benchley
Nathaniel Benchley (1915-1981) was an American novelist and journalist, the son of the humorist Robert Benchley and the father of the novelist Peter Benchley. After service in the US Navy in the Second World War he wrote for magazines and published novels for adults, including The Off-Islanders (1961), filmed as The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. He later wrote many books for children, among them several easy-reader histories such as Sam the Minuteman and George the Drummer Boy.
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Sam the MinutemanNathaniel Benchley
1969 · Postwar Contemporary · Novella
Sam the Minuteman is an easy-to-read story of the first battle of the American Revolution, told through a boy who lives through it. Sam Brown lives with his mother and father on a farm in Lexington, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1775.