Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wendy Benchley smiles in a white jacket. While Peter Benchley passed away in 2006 from pulmonary fibrosis, the author and his ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But if you read any account of those shark attacks, you might question the author's remarks. In the summer of 1916, swimming in ...

2.Speilberg had no idea what Peter Benchley's "Jaws" was, but when he read it, he fell in love with it, calling the story about the "Leviathan of the sea." 3.Author Peter Benchley caught sharks in ...

In 1916, five shark attacks along the New Jersey coast left four people dead and one injured. The rare inland attacks sparked panic, beach closures, and widespread media coverage. The events helped ...

I first saw “Jaws” during its theatrical debut in 1975 when I was 15. The previous year, family friends had loaned me Peter Benchley’s novel. The book and film terrified me. But I had been a ...

Fifty years after Steven Spielberg’s "Jaws" instilled fear in the hearts of many and the desire in others to wield a harpoon, the real-life Montauk charter fisherman forever tied to the fictional work ...

In 1916, a great white shark attacked five people near the Jersey Shore. Library of Congress In the summer of 1916, panic struck the Jersey Shore. A shark sunk its teeth into Charles Vansant, the ...

To read Monster sharks have returned to the Jersey Shore. Is it a nightmare or a new golden age?, click here. Peter Benchley thought he had one last shot. So the aspiring novelist from a family of ...