Benchley, Peter
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Name (Hebrew)
בנצ'לי, פיטר
Name (Latin)
Benchley, Peter
Name (Arabic)
بنشلي، بيتر، 1940-2006
Other forms of name
Benchli, Piter
Date of birth
1940-05-08
Date of death
2006-02-11
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Fiction
Motion picture plays
Novels
Occupation
Novelists
Screenwriters
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- His Jonathan visits the White House, 1964.
- Belai︠a︡ akula, 1996:t.p. (Piter Benchli)
- NUCMC data from Boston Univ., Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center for Peter Benchley collection, 1957-1999(Peter Bradford Benchley)
- New York times WWW site, Feb. 13, 2006(Peter Benchley; d. yesterday morning [Feb. 12, 2006], Princeton, N.J., aged 65; his 1974 novel Jaws turned shark attacks into a national obsession; he later used what he called his "fish story" to help promote oceanic conservation)
- Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1940)
- الجزيرة، 1990:صفحة العنوان (بيتر بنشلي)
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 back cover featuring a portrait photograph of Peter Benchley by Alex Gotfryd, first edition.jpg)
Jaws (1974) back cover featuring a portrait photograph of Peter Benchley by Alex Gotfryd, first edition
Back jacket photo by Alex Gotfryd, Public domain
File:Jaws (1974) back cover featuring a portrait photograph of Peter Benchley by Alex Gotfryd, first edition.jpg
Back jacket photo by Alex Gotfryd, Public domain
File:Signature of Peter Benchley from a typescript of chapter 1 of Jaws (1974).jpg
Peter Benchley, Public domain
Wikipedia description:
Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author. He is best known for his bestselling novel Jaws and co-wrote its movie adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. Several more of his works were also adapted for both cinema and television, including The Deep, The Island, Beast, and White Shark. Later in life, Benchley expressed some regret for his writing about sharks, which he felt indulged already present fear and false belief about sharks, and he became an advocate for marine conservation. Contrary to widespread rumor, Benchley did not believe that his writings contributed to shark depopulation, nor is there evidence that Jaws or any of his works did so.
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