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 ...

4.It took months for Benchley to come up with a title for the book, which included "Terror of the Deep," "Great White," ...

The result is a starkly dramatic design that shows the power of minimalism in communicating what a book or movie is about ...

Now a bonanza of viewership, the 37-year-old event that launched as a meager presentation of 10 basic programs and has also ...

Fifty years after her husband's book, the matriarch of the Benchley family talks about Jaws' legacy of shark protection.

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 ...

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, whose novel “Jaws” terrorized millions of swimmers even as the author himself became an advocate for the conservation of sharks, has died Saturday at 65 at his home in Princeton, N.H.

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 ...

NEW YORK — 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 today ...