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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. He was the grandson of writer Robert Benchley, and son of writer Nathaniel Benchley.
Author's Timeline:
1940 New York County
Peter Bradford Benchley was born in Manhattan, New York, on May 8, 1940. 
2006 (Unknown) County
Peter Benchley died in Princeton, New Jersey, on February 11, 2006. 
1974 (Unknown) County
Jaws
(Pub: Doubleday & Co. Inc. ISBN: 1122713088 / 978-1122713085)
Novel. 
1976 (Unknown) County
The Deep
(Pub: Doubleday ISBN: 0385047428 / 978-0385047425)
Novel. 
1979 (Unknown) County
The Island
(Pub: Doubleday ISBN: 0385131720 / 978-0385131728)
Novel. 
1964 (Unknown) County
Time and a Ticket
(Pub: Houghton, Mifflin ISBN: 0395074037 / 978-0395074039)
Fiction. 
1982 (Unknown) County
The Girl of the Sea of Cortez
(Pub: Doubleday ISBN: 038517926X / 978-0385179263)
Novel. 
1986 (Unknown) County
Q Clearance
(Pub: Random House ISBN: 0394553608 / 978-0394553603)
Novel. 
1989 (Unknown) County
Rummies
(Pub: Random House ISBN: 0394576675 / 978-0394576671)
Novel; aka "Lush." 
1991 (Unknown) County
Beast
(Pub: Random House ISBN: 0679403558 / 978-0679403555)
Novel. 
1994 (Unknown) County
White Shark
(Pub: Random House ISBN: 0679403566 / 978-0679403562)
Novel. 
2005 (Unknown) County
Shark Life
(Pub: Delacorte ISBN: 0375836500 / 978-0375836503)
Novel; aka "Peter Benchley's Creature."  
2006 (Unknown) County
Peter Bradford Benchley was interred at Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts. 

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