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Peter Benchley Biography (1940-)

Full name, Peter Bradford Benchley; born May 8, 1940, in New York, NY; son ofNathaniel Goddard (an author) and Marjorie (Bradford) Benchley; married Wendy Wesson, September 19, 1964; children: Tracy, Clayton. Addresses: AGENT--c/o Roberta Pryor, International Creative Management, 40 W. 57th Street,New York, NY 10019.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Birth Details

May 8, 1940

New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

• Writings
• NOVELS,UNLESS INDICATED Time and a Ticket (non-fiction), Houghton Mifflin, 1964.
• Jonathan Visits the White House (juvenile), McGraw-Hill, 1964.
• Jaws (also see below), Doubleday, 1974.
• The Deep (also see below), Doubleday, 1976.
• The Island (also see below), Doubleday, 1979.
• The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, Doubleday, 1982.
• Q Clearance, Random House, 1986.
• Writings;SCREENPLAYS; ALL BASED ON HIS NOVELS OF THE SAME TITLES
• (With Carl Gottlieb) Jaws, Universal, 1975.
• (co-author) The Deep, Columbia, 1977.
• The Island, Universal, 1980.
• Contributor to periodicals, including Holiday, New Yorker, Vogue, New York Times Magazine, and National Geographic.