Peter Benchley Articles

Author Peter Benchley, whose 1970s novel Jaws became a literary sensation, has died at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. Benchley, who was 65, had been suffering from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and ultimately fatal scarring of the lungs. In 1975, Jaws – the tale of a white shark with an insatiable appetite — went on to become one of the biggest box-office blockbusters [...]