"Mr. B" or Comforting Thoughts About the Bison: A Critical Biography of Robert Benchley Gehring, Wes D.

With the cooperation of family members and using diaries, correspondence, and other archival materials, humorist Wes 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. The flavor of Benchley comes through not only in observations and anecdotes but in a section reprinting selected letters, columns, and a collage of comments on favorite comedians. Also included is an annotated bibliography of Benchley's writings and books and articles about him, a Benchley chronology, an annotated filmography, a discography, photographs, and reproductions of Benchley's sketches and cartoons.

DOI: 10.1336/0313252424 Mouse over the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to learn more about this book or related books published by Greenwood Publishing Group. Visit the Greenwood Publishing Group page for this title: http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GBY%252f.aspx

"Mr. B" or Comforting Thoughts About the Bison: A Critical Biography of Robert Benchley Series: Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture Hardback, 288 pages, $126.95 Copyright ©1992, Greenwood Press ISBN: 0-313-25242-4 DOI: 10.1336/0313252424

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