It took months for Benchley to come up with a title for the book, which included "Terror of the Deep," "Great White," ...

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

13.Finally, the line, "You're gonna need a bigger boat," is probably the most famous bit of dialogue in Jaws, and it was ad-libbed by actor Roy Scheider. The line came from an inside joke among the ...

In celebration of the film's historic 50th anniversary, a new Nat Geo documentary offers a look back at the hardships and ...

Peter Benchley, whose first novel, "Jaws," sold 20 million copies and helped invent the Hollywood summer blockbuster film when Steven Spielberg made the tale of a bloodthirsty shark into a 1975 ...

The novel that inspired the film Jaws was decidedly populist. The movie took a different turn.

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 ...

Peter Benchley, 65, the author and conservationist who wrote "Jaws," the shark-attack novel that became a classic movie and provided a nation with thrills, chills and recurring nightmares, died ...