"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 ...

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 ...

What's a list of Florida's deadliest creatures without alligators ... Sharks get a bad rap (Thank you Peter Benchley) but truth is most shark bites don't kill people. Experts believe sharks ...

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." ...

The visceral passages that follow, from the opening chapter of Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel Jaws ... depicting either an anonymous torpedo-like creature or a hyper-stylised, dagger-toothed ...

Besides, it’s often not true — would anyone argue that Peter Benchley’s novel is better than Jaws? The claim is often just snobbery... but when it comes to the 1979 James Bond movie ...