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ROBERT BENCHLEY
Growing
up in
Massachusetts
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Benchley attended Harvard and was president and editorial board member of the
Harvard Lampoon. He contributed humorous pieces to Vanity Fair, was a
reporter for the New York Tribune, and shared an office with Dorothy
Parker as a freelance writer. He began at The New Yorker in 1925 and was
the drama critic from 1929-1940. By 1938 he was developing a career in
Hollywood
filmmaking, and by 1943 was retired from writing.
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