The Bedside Manner

by Robert Benchley

Illustrations by Gluyas Williams. This volume collects pieces which did not appear in the British edition of My Ten Years in a Quandary, together with those pieces from Of All Things which had not previously been published in British collections.

Genres: Humor

254 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1952

About the author

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 his popular success won best short subject at the academy awards of 1935, and his many memorable appearances in such as Foreign Correspondent of Alfred Joseph Hitchcock and a dramatic turn in Nice Girl? . He wrote his legacy in numerous short appearances.

Reviews

[Liminal Angel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute and funny. I particularly liked the one about two letters from school boys writing home.