Nathaniel Benchley (November 13, 1915 – December 14, 1981) was an American author.
Born in Newton, Massachusetts to a literary family, he was the son of Gertrude Darling and Robert Benchley (1889-1945), the noted American writer, humorist, critic, actor, and one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City.
Nathaniel Benchley was the highly-respected author of many children's/juvenile books that provided learning for the youthful readers with stories of various animals or through the book's historical settings. Benchley dealt with diverse locales and topics such as "Bright Candles", which recounts the experiences of a 16-year-old Danish boy during the German occupation of his country in World War II; and "Small Wolf", a story about 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 peoples'.
Film director/producer, Norman Jewison made Benchley's 1961 novel The Off-Islanders into a motion picture titled The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming for which he received the nomination for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. He was a close friend of actor Humphrey Bogart and wrote his biography in 1975.
Benchley's novel Welcome to Xanadu was made into the 1975 motion picture Sweet Hostage.
His elder son, Peter Benchley (1940-2006), was a writer best known for writing the novel Jaws and the screenplay of the 1975 Steven Spielberg film made from it. His younger son, Nat Benchley, is a writer and actor who has portrayed his grandfather, Robert Benchley, in a one-man, semi-biographical stage show, "Benchley Despite Himself". The show was a compilation of Robert Benchley's best monologues, short films, radio rantings and pithy pieces as recalled, edited, and acted by his grandson Nat, and combined with family reminiscences and friends' perspectives."
Nathaniel Benchley died in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts and was interred in the family plot at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Nantucket.
這次用券買瞭很多書,還來不及看,先屯著吧,以後慢慢消化。本來是為孩子買的,現在好象是自己看的更多,嗬嗬。
評分I can read, 作為分級讀物來說是很不錯的一套書,但是作為繪本。。。還是看原著比較好,更多原版繪本介紹,參看爸媽網繪本俱樂部。
評分汪的書,下瞭狠心還是收下瞭,不等再給力的活動瞭
評分Red fox是一個印第安小男孩,他讓爸爸給他做瞭一隻獨木舟,很大很大,大得可以裝下熊,還是好幾隻熊……故事有點長,慢慢看。
評分寶寶3歲7個月,這次在京東買瞭很多。即使沒有優惠券,也豁齣去買瞭n本
評分很不錯的分級讀物,很好,很好
評分今天到我手上,書的包裝非常好
評分汪培珽老師推薦的,還是在京東做活動的時候買是最值的,隻可惜很多都沒搶到。
評分有一個翻船的故事,童書無法避免重復題材,孩子也喜歡錶現自己的“預見”能力
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