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Robert Benchley


Born
in Worcester, Massachusetts, The United States
September 15, 1889

Died
November 21, 1945

Genre
Humor


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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Average rating: 3.99 · 2,299 ratings · 262 reviews · 121 distinct works • Similar authors
The Benchley Roundup
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4.03 avg rating — 332 ratings — published 1954 — 22 editions
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Chips Off the Old Benchley
4.21 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 1949 — 23 editions
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My Ten Years in a Quandary ...
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4.16 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1936 — 39 editions
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Love Conquers All
4.12 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 2015 — 111 editions
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Of All Things!
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3.85 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2000 — 108 editions
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The Best of Robert Benchley
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4.01 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions
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Benchley Lost and Found
4.23 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1970 — 6 editions
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20,000 Leagues Under the Se...
4.15 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1928 — 15 editions
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Benchley Beside Himself
4.33 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1943 — 15 editions
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After 1903 - What?
4.40 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1938 — 9 editions
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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
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“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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