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Robert Benchley

Born

in Worcester, Massachusetts, The United States

September 15, 1889

Died

November 21, 1945

Genre

Humor

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Works, including How to Sleep , the film of 1935, and My Ten Years in a Quandary , the book of 1936, of Robert Charles Benchley, humorist, critic, and actor, often pitted an average American against the complexities of modern life.

People best knew Robert Charles Benchley as a newspaper columnist. He began at the Lampoon and meanwhile attended Harvard University and wrote many essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.
From New York City and his peers at the Algonquin Round Table, short style brought acclaim, respect, and success to Benchley to contemporaries in the burgeoning industry.

Benchley contributed best remembered influential topical or absurdist essays to The New Yorker. He also made a name in Hollywood, when hi ...more

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	The Benchley Roundup by Robert Benchley, Nathaniel G. Benchley (Introduction), Robert Benchley 4.03 avg rating — 332 ratings — published 1954 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chips Off the Old Benchley 4.21 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 1949 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew by Robert Benchley, Gluyas Williams (Illustrator) 4.15 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 1936 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Conquers All 4.11 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 2015 — 105 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Of All Things! by Robert Benchley, Gluyas Williams (Illustrator) 3.85 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2000 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of Robert Benchley by Robert Benchley, Peter Arno (Illustrator) 4.01 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Benchley Lost and Found 4.23 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1970 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea or David Copperfield 4.15 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1928 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Benchley Beside Himself 4.31 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1943 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	After 1903 - What? 4.40 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1938 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.”
― Robert Benchley

tags: bleeding, funny, humor, opera, stabbed

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“The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.”
― Robert Benchley, My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew

tags: humor

535 likes

“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”
― Robert Benchley

tags: fame, writing

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