Nathaniel Benchley

Nathaniel Benchley was born in 1915 in Newton, Massachusetts, into a literary family; his father was the humorist and critic Robert Benchley, a founder of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City. He graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College. He joined the Navy before Pearl Harbor and served on convoy duty in the North Atlantic and later in the Pacific. After the war he worked as an assistant drama editor at Newsweek. His first novel, Side Street, appeared in 1950, and in 1955 he published a biography of his father. His novel The Off-Islanders (1961) became the film comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. He also wrote many books for young readers that bring historical settings to life, such as Sam the Minuteman, about a boy at the Battle of Lexington, and Bright Candles, set in occupied Denmark. He wrote a biography of his friend Humphrey Bogart. He died in Boston in 1981.

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