Bradford were married not long after his college years. They settled in New York City and had two sons, one before and one after World War II. Elder son Peter Benchley (1940–2006) was a writer, known best for the novel Jaws and the screenplay for its Steven Spielberg film, the 1975 best-seller Jaws. Younger son Nat Benchley is a writer and actor who has portrayed his grandfather, Robert Benchley, in a one-man, semi-biographical stage show, Benchley Despite Himself. The show was a compilation of Robert Benchley's best monologues, short films, radio rantings, and pithy pieces as recalled, edited, and acted by grandson Nat, combined with family reminiscences and friends' perspectives. Nathaniel Benchley died 1981 in Boston and was interred in the family plot at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Nantucket. Bibliography Novels Side Street (Harcourt, Brace, 1950) A Firm Word or Two (1958) Catch a Falling Spy (1964) A Winter's Tale (1964) The Visitors (1965) The Monument : A Satiric Novel (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) Non-fiction The Benchley Roundup: A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of His Favorites (1954), by Robert Benchley, Humphrey Bogart (1975) Essays and reporting "Introduction", Twentieth Century Parody, American and British, ed. Burling Lowrey (1960), Short fiction Plays The frogs of spring, a comedy in three acts (1954) https://lccn.loc.gov/54036696 Children's books Welcome to Xanadu (1968) The Flying Lesson of Gerald Pelican (1970), illus. Mamoru Funai Feldman Fieldmouse: A Fable (1971), illus. Hilary Knight Gone and Back (1971) – Oklahoma "pioneer adventure of Obediah Taylor, a boy reaching manhood" The Magic Sled (1972), illus. Mel Furukawa; UK title, The Magic Sledge Only Earth and Sky Last Forever (1972) – "Although recognizing the end of the Indians' freedom is near, a young Cheyenne still chooses to fight with Crazy Horse", The Deep Dives of Stanley Whale (1973), illus. Mischa Richter Bright Candles: A Novel of the Danish Resistance (1974) – features "a sixteen-year-old Danish boy during the German occupation", Beyond the Mists: A Novel (1975) – features "an adventurous youth who travels to Vinland with Leif Eriksson", Kilroy and the Gull (1977), illus. John Schoenherr – a Marineland killer whale "escapes to life on the open sea with his friend Morris the sea gull", Demo and