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

Re “This Shark Week, some ideas on ‘Jaws’ at 50” (op-ed, July 19): I was curious to know why anyone would write an op-ed ...

Steve Spielberg's Jaws saw a sudden change after a real shark attack on Matt Hooper's stuntman was "better than anything they ...

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 ...

4.It took months for Benchley to come up with a title for the book, which included "Terror of the Deep," "Great White," "Leviathan Rising," and many more. Everyone involved was pleased with the word ...

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.

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

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

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 ...

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.