"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.

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"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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