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Person Detail: Peter Bradford Benchley

General Information:
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.
Life Events:
Year: 1940 Event: BIRTH New York County
Peter Benchley was born in New York, New York in 1940. 
Year: 1964 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Time and a Ticket
Fiction. 
Year: 1974 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Jaws
Novel. 
Year: 1976 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
The Deep
Novel. 
Year: 1979 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
The Island
Novel. 
Year: 1982 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
The Girl of the Sea of Cortez
Novel. 
Year: 1986 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Q Clearance
Novel. 
Year: 1989 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Rummies
Novel; aka "Lush." 
Year: 1991 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Beast
Novel. 
Year: 1994 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
White Shark
Novel. 
Year: 2005 Event: LITWORK (Unknown) County
Shark Life
Novel; aka "Peter Benchley's Creature."  
Year: 2006 Event: DEATH (Unknown) County
Peter Benchley died in Princeton, New Jersey in 2006. 

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