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Nathaniel Benchley (November 13, 1915 – December 14, 1981) wasan American author.Born in Newton, Massachusetts to a literary family, he was theson of Gertrude Darling and Robert Benchley (1889-1945), the notedAmerican writer, humorist, critic, actor, and one of the foundersof the Algonquin Round Table in New York City.Nathaniel Benchley was the highly-respected author of manychildren's/juvenile books that provided learning for the youthfulreaders with stories of various animals or through the book'shistorical settings. Benchley dealt with diverse locales and topicssuch as "Bright Candles", which recounts the experiences of a16-year-old Danish boy during the German occupation of his countryin World War II; and "Small Wolf", a story about a Native Americanboy who meets white men on the island of Manhattan and learns thattheir ideas about land are different from those of his ownpeoples'.Film director/producer, Norman Jewison made Benchley's 1961novel The Off-Islanders into a motion picture titled The RussiansAre Coming, the Russians Are Coming for which he received thenomination for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay. Hewas a close friend of actor Humphrey Bogart and wrote his biographyin 1975.Benchley's novel Welcome to Xanadu was made into the 1975 motionpicture Sweet Hostage.His elder son, Peter Benchley (1940-2006), was a writer bestknown for writing the novel Jaws and the screenplay of the 1975Steven Spielberg film made from it. His younger son, Nat Benchley,is a writer and actor who has portrayed his grandfather, RobertBenchley, in a one-man, semi-biographical stage show, "BenchleyDespite Himself". The show was a compilation of Robert Benchley'sbest monologues, short films, radio rantings and pithy pieces asrecalled, edited, and acted by his grandson Nat, and combined withfamily reminiscences and friends' perspectives."Nathaniel Benchley died in 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts and wasinterred in the family plot at Prospect Hill Cemetery inNantucket.  Don Bolognese is the illustrator of many popular books ofhistorical fiction, including the I Can Read Books Buffalo Bill andthe Pony Express by Eleanor Coerr and Wagon Wheels by BarbaraBrenner. He lives in New York City and Vermont.