![]() ![]() ![]() However, his biggest breakthrough came when he wrote Jaws.īenchley’s fascination with sharks began during his childhood, where he spent his summers on Nantucket Island sailing, fishing, swimming and admiring the ocean predators. Marine Corps Reserve before working as a reporter for The Washington Post, a Radio & TV editor for Newsweek, a junior speechwriter for President Lyndon Johnson, and later as a freelance writer. He is notably known for writing the bestselling novel Jaws (1974), which was adapted into a blockbuster movie directed by Steven Spielberg.īorn in New York City, Benchley attended Harvard University and traveled around the world for a year after graduation an experience that inspired his first book Time and a Ticket.īenchley served briefly in the U.S. ![]() Peter Bradford Benchley, better known as Peter Benchley, was an American screenwriter, marine conservationist and author of thriller novels. ![]()
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