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Person Detail: Peter Bradford Benchley

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Full Name: Peter Bradford Benchley
Biography:
(1940-2006) Writer. Peter Benchley was born in New York, New York in 1940, and died in Princeton, New Jersey in 2006. He was a graduate of Harvard University and had worked for the Washington Post, Newsweek, and as a speech writer in the White House.
Author's Timeline:
1940 New York County
Peter Benchley was born in New York, New York in 1940. 
1964 (Unknown) County
Time and a Ticket
Fiction. 
1974 (Unknown) County
Jaws
Novel. 
1976 (Unknown) County
The Deep
Novel. 
1979 (Unknown) County
The Island
Novel. 
1982 (Unknown) County
The Girl of the Sea of Cortez
Novel. 
1986 (Unknown) County
Q Clearance
Novel. 
1989 (Unknown) County
Rummies
Novel; aka "Lush." 
1991 (Unknown) County
Beast
Novel. 
1994 (Unknown) County
White Shark
Novel. 
2005 (Unknown) County
Shark Life
Novel; aka "Peter Benchley's Creature."  
2006 (Unknown) County
Peter Benchley died in Princeton, New Jersey in 2006. 

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