Awards & Winners

Nathaniel Benchley

Date of Birth 13-November-1915
Place of Birth Newton
(United States of America, Massachusetts, Middlesex County)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Nathaniel G. Benchley
Profession Writer, Journalist, Screenwriter, Painter, Author
Nathaniel Benchley was an American author. Born in Newton, Massachusetts to a literary family, he was the son of Gertrude Darling and Robert Benchley, the noted American writer, humorist, critic, actor, and one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table in New York City. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor and served as a public relations officer and on convoy duty in the Atlantic on destroyers and patrol craft. He was transferred to the Pacific in 1945. He later worked for Newsweek magazine as an assistant drama editor.

Awards by Nathaniel Benchley

Check all the awards nominated and won by Nathaniel Benchley.

1972


Spur Award for Best Juvenile Fiction
Honored for : Only earth and sky last forever