The legacy of “Jaws” lives forever for Wendy Benchley. Benchley, the widow of “Jaws” author Peter Benchley and an executive ...

The interview with 'Jaws' author Peter Benchley was published June 17, 2000, in the Cape Cod Times. Benchley died in 2006.

Peter Benchley was born to the craft. Grandson of the humorist Robert Benchley, he was undaunted when his father, author Nathaniel Benchley, said he would pay him to produce 1,000 words a day.

Fifty years after her husband's book, the matriarch of the Benchley family talks about Jaws' legacy of shark protection.

June 26 also features a Q&A with Wendy Benchley, wife of 'Jaws' author Peter Benchley and ocean conservation advocate, and ...

Peter Benchley was born to the craft. Grandson of the humorist Robert Benchley, he was undaunted when his father, author Nathaniel Benchley, said he would pay him to produce 1,000 words a day.

Peter Benchley was born to the craft. Grandson of the humorist Robert Benchley, he was undaunted when his father, author Nathaniel Benchley, said he would pay him to produce 1,000 words a day.

Peter Benchley, who wrote the book "Jaws" 30 years ago, points at a Scalloped Hammerhead shark as a Galapagos shark swims in background at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's new "Sharks: Myth and Mystery ...

PETER BENCHLEY: The ocean is the largest wilderness on the planet, and it is right at our backdoor. And while we would no more go into the jungle dressed in a bathing suit and carrying with us ...

Based on Peter Benchley’s 1974 novel of the same name, the 1975 film was one of the first summer blockbusters. Another "Jaws" character influenced a generation of fishermen: Quint.

Peter Benchley, whose novel "Jaws" terrorized millions of swimmers even as the author himself became an advocate for the conservation of sharks, has died at age 65, his widow said Sunday.