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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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," 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.