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

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

Based on Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel of the same name, "Jaws" follows what happens on an island off the coast of New England ...

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

Our far-distant ancestors and those of the shark shared the same waters. In 1975, "JAWS" created a reunion of imagination, borne of love and fear.

June 26 also features a Q&A with Wendy Benchley, wife of 'Jaws' author Peter Benchley and ocean conservation advocate, and ...

Peter Benchley, who wrote the book "Jaws" 30 years ago, points at a Scalloped Hammerhead shark as a Galapagos shark swims in background at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's new "Sharks: Myth and Mystery ...

Based on Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel of the same name, the 1975 film was one of the first summer blockbusters. Another "Jaws" character influenced a generation of fishermen: Quint.

PETER BENCHLEY: The ocean is the largest wilderness on the planet, and it is right at our backdoor. And while we would no more go into the jungle dressed in a bathing suit and carrying with us ...

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, 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 ...