Nathaniel Goddard Benchley was an American author from Massachusetts.
10 Facts About Nathaniel Benchley
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Nathaniel Benchley graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College.
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Nathaniel Benchley enlisted in the US Navy prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Nathaniel Benchley served as a public relations officer, and on destroyers and patrol craft for North Atlantic convoy duty during the Battle of the Atlantic, and was transferred to the Pacific Theater in 1945.
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Nathaniel Benchley wrote a biography of his father Robert that McGraw-Hill published in 1955.
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Nathaniel Benchley was the respected author of much children's fiction that provides readers an experience of certain animal species, historical settings, and so on.
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Nathaniel Benchley presented diverse locales and topics: for instance, Bright Candles recounts the experiences of a 16-year-old Danish boy during the German occupation of Denmark in World War II; Small Wolf features a Native American boy who meets white men on the island of Manhattan and learns that their ideas about land are different from those of his own people.
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Nathaniel Benchley was a friend of the actor Humphrey Bogart and wrote a biography of Bogart published in 1975.
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Nathaniel Benchley's eldest son Peter Benchley was a writer, best-known for the novel Jaws and its 1975 screen adaptation, directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Nathaniel Benchley died 1981 in Boston and was interred in the family plot at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Nantucket.