Author: Altman, Billy,
Title: Laughter's Gentle Soul: the life of Robert Benchley.
Description: NY, Norton, (1992). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Humorist, actor and leading man, Benchley (1989-1945), member of the Algonquin Round Table. Small smudge at top of fore-edge. In the Roaring Twenties, the Vicious Cirlce held court, Dorothy Parker, Robert Sherwood, and Harold Ross. Author of a dozen hilarious books, and one of the most influential humorists of successive generations in his short life, a sharp=witted critics when reviews ran on the front page of Life and the New Yorker.

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