Peter Benchley was an alumnus of Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University.Īfter graduating from college, he worked for The Washington Post, then as an editor at Newsweek and a speechwriter in the White House. His younger brother, Nat Benchley, is a writer and actor.
He was the son of author Nathaniel Benchley and grandson of Algonquin Round Table founder Robert Benchley. Benchley also wrote The Deep and The Island which were also adapted into films.īenchley was from a literary family. The subsequent film directed by Steven Spielberg and co-written by Benchley is generally acknowledged as the first summer blockbuster. The success of the book led to many publishers commissioning books about mutant rats, rabid dogs and the like threatening communities. Peter Bradford Benchley was an American author best known for writing the novel Jaws and co-writing the screenplay for its highly successful film adaptation.
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