Per Page to Screen, Benchley was a freelancer at the time he first thought about writing Jaws, inspired by a great white ...

Speechwriter and future "Jaws" author Peter Benchley sat next to President Lyndon B. Johnson, his boss, in 1967. Courtesy of the White House Photo Office collection, LBJ Presidential Library.

Peter Benchley, author of "Jaws," clarified misconceptions surrounding the book and film's creation in a 2000 interview. Benchley denied rumors of feuds with Spielberg and being removed from the ...

It's been 50 years since the late author Peter Benchley introduced us to "Jaws," a fictional man-eating great white shark that terrorized the summer resort village of Amity, Long Island, and our ...

I first saw “Jaws” during its theatrical debut in 1975 when I was 15. The previous year, family friends had loaned me Peter ...

Peter Benchley, who wrote the book "Jaws," points at a Scalloped Hammerhead shark as a Galapagos shark swims in background at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's new "Sharks: Myth and Mystery" exhibit in ...

Peter Benchley, whose novel "Jaws" terrorized millions of swimmers even as the author himself became an advocate for the conservation of sharks, has died at age 65, his widow said Sunday.

Peter Benchley was born to the craft. Grandson of the humorist Robert Benchley, he was undaunted when his father, author Nathaniel Benchley, said he would pay him to produce 1,000 words a day. At… ...

Peter Benchley, whose 1974 novel “Jaws” turned shark attacks into a national obsession and who later used what he called his “fish story” to help promote oceanic conservation, died Sunday ...

The writer Peter Benchley died on Saturday. He was 65 and, according to relatives quoted in published obituaries, he suffered from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, a scarring of the lungs.

The interview with 'Jaws' author Peter Benchley was published June 17, 2000, in the Cape Cod Times. Benchley died in 2006.