Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's been 50 years since the late author Peter Benchley introduced us to "Jaws," a fictional man-eating great white shark that ...

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,” ...

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 ...

Peter Benchley, whose novel “Jaws” terrorized millions of swimmers even as the author himself became an advocate for the conservation of sharks, died at home Saturday in Princeton, N.J., at age 65.

50 years ago this very summer, director Steven Spielberg changed the world of moviemaking (not to mention beach bathing) for good with the release of Jaws. But before Bruce the shark feasted on Amity ...

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 ...

Convinced that “every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs,” as he said in an interview with National Geographic, Peter B. Benchley ’61 never shied away from the ...

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 ...

Some of the most popular films made were based on books and you may not even know it. Here are five famous movies that were ...

It’s been 30 years since Peter Benchley wrote the bloody bestseller ‘Jaws.’ In fall 2005, when he learned monster great whites were circling an island off Baja, he couldn’t resist going ...

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 ...