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Nathaniel Benchley
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Sex:M
Age:66
Birth Date:November 13, 1915
Astrology Sign:Scorpio
Chinese Sign:Rabbit - Yin
Birth Name:
Birth Place:Newton, Massachusetts
Died Date:December 14, 1981
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Occupation:Author

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NATHANIEL BENCHLEY
Nathaniel Benchley

Biography: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 Algonquin Round Table founder, Robert Benchley.

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" that recounts the experiences of a sixteen-year-old Danish boy during the German occupation of his country in World War II or "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 1962 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.

His son, Peter Benchley, also became a writer best known for the book and screenplay for the 1975 film, Jaws.

Nathaniel Benchley died in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts and was interred in the family plot at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Nantucket.

Partial bibliography, children/juvenile books:

Sinbad the Sailor (1960) The Off-Islanders (1962) Red Fox and His Canoe (1964) Oscar Otter (1966) The Strange Disappearance of Arthur Cluck (1967) Ghost Named Fred (1968) Sam the Minuteman (1969) The Several Tricks of Edgar Dolphin (1970) Feldman Fieldmouse: A Fable (1971) The Magic Sled (1972) Small Wolf (1972) Only Earth and Sky Last Forever (1972) The Deep Dives of Stanley Whale (1973) Bright Candles: A Novel of the Danish Resistance (1974) Beyond the Mists (1975) Snorri and the Strangers (1976) Kilroy and the Gull (1977) George the Drummer Boy (1977) Running Owl the Hunter (1979) Walter, the Homing Pigeon (1981)

Partial bibliography, novels:

Sail a Crooked Ship (1960) Catch a Falling Spy (1964) A Winter's Tale (1964) The Visitors (1965) The Monument (1966) Welcome to Xanadu (1968) The Wake of the Icarus (1969) Lassiter's Folly (1971) A Necessary End: A Novel of World War II (1976) Sweet Anarchy (1979) Portrait of a Scoundrel (1979) All Over Again (1981) Speakeasy (1982)

Achievements: (Filmography)
The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming (1966)

Chinese Horoscope for Nathaniel Benchley
Includes characteristics and Vices
Nathaniel Benchley's Chinese Horoscope
Chinese Year: February 14, 1915 - February 02, 1916
Birthday: November 13, 1915

The Rabbit is a Yin,
and is the Fourth sign of the Chinese horoscope.

Characteristics:    
Tact
Finesse
Virtue
Prudence
Longevity
Ambition
Vices:
Secretiveness
Squeamishness
Pedantry
Dilettantism
Hypochondria
Complexity


Personality and Character Cards:
Personality and character cards are identical!

Nathaniel Benchley's Personality Tarot Card The Emperor - Personality Card

Birthday: November 13, 1915

Material success, stability, authority and ambition.


This year's Growth Tarot Card
Based on this year's birthday

Nathaniel Benchley's Growth Tarot Card The Emperor

Birthday: November 13, 2023

Material success, stability, authority and ambition.

 

 

 

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