biography
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Benchley, Robert (Charles)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1889–1945)
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| biography:
| Humorist, critic, and parodist, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He worked first at Vanity Fair, and then as a drama critic for Life (1920–9) and The New Yorker (1929–40). He was at his most brilliant writing sketches, which surfaced in several collections including From Bed to Worse (1934) and My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew (1936). His humour derives from the predicament of the ‘little man’, beset on all sides by the complexity of existence in the modern world. He also appeared in cameo roles in many films. |
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