The experience is narrated in his first book, Time and a Ticket published in 1964. Immediately after graduating from college in 1961, the author traveled across the globe for one year.
Peter was an alumnus of Harvard University, Allen-Stevenson School, and Phillips Exeter Academy.
Nat Benchley, his younger brother, is an actor and a writer. Peter was the son of Marjorie and Nathaniel Benchley. This led him to become an active advocate for marine conservation. Later in life, the author came to regret writing such thriller which he felt increased fear and caused unnecessary culls of sharks as predators in the ocean ecosystem.
Several of the author’s novels were adapted into movies include, The Island, The Deep, White Shark, and Beast. Peter Benchley was an American author of mystery and thriller novels best known as the author of Jaws and co-wrote the novel subsequent film adaptation alongside Carl Gottlieb.
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