Robert Benchley

Growing up in Massachusetts, Benchley attended Harvard and was president of editorial board member of the Harvard Lampoon. He contributed humorous pieces to Vanity Fair, was a reporter for the New York Tribune, and shared an office with Dorothy Parker as a freelance writer. He began at The New Yorker in 1925 and was the drama critic from 1929-1940. By 1938 he was developing a career in Hollywood filmmaking, and by 1943 was retired from writing.

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