Mr. B or Comforting Thoughts about the Bison: A Critical Biography of Robert Benchley

by Wes D. Gehring

With the cooperation of Benchley family members, and using diaries and correspondence and much archival material, Gehring has written a fresh and lively biography of humorist Robert Benchley. Known for his development of the comic anti-hero in essays, columns, film scripts, as a screen actor, and on stage and radio, Benchley emerges as a fascinating individual whose significance as a pivotal American humorist is fully documented.

Benchley's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313252424
• ISBN13: 9780313252426
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"