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Peter Benchley
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8 May 1940 - 11 February 2006
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Peter Benchley was born on May 8, 1940 in New York, USA. Son of novelist Nathaniel Benchley and grandson of comedian Robert Benchley. He studied at the Philips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. In 1961 he graduated from Harvard University College, where he specialized in English. Then Peter Benchley traveled the world for a year, the result of his travels was the book "Time and a Ticket". After serving six months in the Marine Corps, he worked as a reporter for the Washington Post, was a
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Peter Benchley was born on May 8, 1940 in New York, USA. Son of novelist Nathaniel Benchley and grandson of comedian Robert Benchley. He studied at the Philips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. In 1961 he graduated from Harvard University College, where he specialized in English. Then Peter Benchley traveled the world for a year, the result of his travels was the book "Time and a Ticket". After serving six months in the Marine Corps, he worked as a reporter for the Washington Post, was a television critic and editor of Newsweek. For the last two years of Johnson’s presidency, Peter Benchley worked with his administration as a speechwriter. Fame Peter Benchley brought the novel “Jaws”, published in 1974 and tells about the confrontation between a man and a great white shark-man-eater. The book stayed on the bestseller list of the newspaper “New York Times” for more than forty weeks. Based on this work in 1975, Steven Spielberg put the film of the same name that brought the director fame. Among other books by Peter Benchley are “The Abyss” (1976), “The Creature” (1991), “The White Shark” (1994).