Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Jaws" author Peter Benchley remembers stepping off a plane at the Martha's Vineyard airport in 1974 and being ambushed by a Los ...

The legacy of “Jaws” lives forever for Wendy Benchley. Benchley, the widow of “Jaws” author Peter Benchley and an executive producer on the new documentary “Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story,” ...

Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, and Robert Shaw led a cast rounded out by Martha's Vineyard locals. Director Steven Spielberg and author Peter Benchley both expressed regret over how the film ...

For millions, “Jaws” mania never really waned, and no one knows that better than Wendy Benchley, whose late husband Peter wrote the 1974 thriller. Although this weekend’s 50-year anniversary of the ...

Logan Kelly is a professional author, screenwriter, and proud cinemaphile. He studied screenwriting and film history while attending Valencia College, before moving to the New York Metro Area. 50 ...

During a two-year timeframe in the mid-1970s, author Peter Benchley’s creation “Jaws” dominated the New York Times bestseller list and became Hollywood’s first summer blockbuster. His modern-day “Moby ...

Jaws author Peter Benchley, the man who made the ocean a scary place for millions of fans, was actually quite fond of sharks, an image that seems as jarring as Alfred Hitchcock, the director of Psycho ...

Few movies have made an impact on American culture — and Hollywood economics — like Steven Spielberg’s "Jaws." Based on Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel about a great white shark that terrorizes an East ...

Peter Benchley, who lived in Princeton for over three decades until his 2006 death, wrote one of the most successful debut novels of all time, "Jaws," published in 1974. The movie of the same name ...

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 ...

(New York-AP) February 13, 2006 - 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, ...