The hottest beach read of 1974 almost came with a real shark tooth. Born May 8, 1940, in New York City, Peter Benchley had a love of the water instilled in him early on. His parents often took him ...

"Jaws" was released in June 1975; it was directed by Steven Spielberg, with a screenplay by Peter Benchley. It starred Richard Dreyfuss, Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw and Lorraine Gary. "Jaws" was an ...

But what is it about this film, based on the novel of the same name by the late Peter Benchley, that makes it so special? Did the cast and crew know they had a hit on their hands at the time?

Not one person. But after Peter Benchley’s novel, Jaws, and especially a year later after Steven Spielberg’s film of the same name, people began to avoid coastal waters like Mayor Vaughn ...

US author Peter Benchley, whose novel Jaws was made into ... Despite writing books about the terrors of the deep, Mr Benchley wrote that he had "never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish ...

Director Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film — an adaptation of Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel about a man-eating shark that terrorizes the waters surrounding the summer town of Amity Island — isn ...

Medina began her career in publishing at Doubleday, where she worked on the manuscript of Peter Benchley’s debut ... yes—we writers being fragile creatures—loved.” Jon Meacham, who ...

But many people have been aware of them only since 1974. That’s when Peter Benchley’s novel “Jaws” arrived on bookshelves. Benchley died in 2006 at 65. His widow, Wendy, tells me in an ...

Let's be clear: sharks already have a bad enough reputation. As the late Jaws author Peter Benchley once wrote: "Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges." ...