Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley
Peter Benchley
WORKS BY BENCHLEY
the summer of 2004 at the Minnesota Fringe Festival; and novel, White Shark, was published in 1994. The story of
Giant Killer Shark: The Musical, which premiered in the a Nazi-created genetically engineered shark/human hysummer of 2006 at the Toronto Fringe Festival.
brid, failed to achieve popular or critical success. It was
Benchley estimated that he earned enough from book also turned into a made-for-television lm titled Creature,
sales, lm rights and magazine/book club syndication to with Christopher Lehmann-Haupt of the New York Times
looks more like Arnold Schwarzenegger than
be able to work independently as a lm writer for ten saying it [8]
any
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Also in 1994, Benchley became the rst per[8]
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son to host Discovery Channels Shark Week.
Subsequent career
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Non-ction
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Film
[3] Benchley, Peter (2006). 2: Jaws. Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks & the Sea. New York: Random HouseCollins. pp. 1419. ISBN 0-30-754574-1.
[4] Downie, Robert M. Block Island History of Photography
1870-1960s, page 243, Volume 2, 2008
[5] Dowling, Stephen (February 1, 2004). The book that
spawned a monster. BBC News. Retrieved January 1,
2009.
[6] Internet Movie Database, Jaws cast.
[7] Rise of the blockbuster. BBC News. November 16,
2001. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
[8] Peter Benchley, Contemporary Authors Online, Gale,
2003.
[9] Benchley, Peter: Shark Trouble, p. 9. Random House,
2003.
[10] Benchley, P: Shark Trouble, p. xiii. Random House,
2003.
[11] Make your company a world wide known name with us!".
Theroyalgazette.com. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
[12] Jaws author Peter Benchley dies. BBC News. February
13, 2006. Retrieved August 17, 2012.
7 External links
Peter Benchley at the Shark Research Institute
Shark Alliance
Ocial site
See also
Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916
Publishers Weekly lists of bestselling novels in the
United States
References
[1] Hawtree, Christopher. Peter Benchley: He was fascinated by the sea, but his bestselling novel tapped into a
primeval fear of the deep, The Guardian, February 14,
2006. Accessed February 15, 2011.
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Text
8.2
Images
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Content license