About Nathaniel Benchley
Nathaniel Benchley (1915–1981) was the author of several different types of books, as well as plays, movies, and magazine articles. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College, majoring in English. Shortly after graduation, he married Marjorie Bradford, and they settled down in New York City, where he worked for several newspapers and magazines. In 1941, before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the US Navy. After the war, he worked as a freelance writer—and painter—for the next thirty-six years. He wrote novels, plays, short stories, reviews, movie scripts, and a very popular biography of the actor Humphrey Bogart.