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A month later, Benchley delivered a broader outline of the story and rewritten chapters to which Congdon gave his approval. The manuscript took Benchley a year and a half to complete. [8] Benchley worked on the novel in a makeshift office above a furnace company in Pennington, New Jersey during the winter months.
Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author. He is best known for his bestselling novel Jaws and co-wrote its movie adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. Several more of his works were also adapted for both cinema and television, including The Deep, The Island, Beast, and White Shark.
Thomas Boss Congdon Jr. (March 17, 1931 – December 23, 2008) was an American book editor who worked on Russell Baker's memoir Growing Up, Peter Benchley's bestselling novel Jaws, and David Halberstam's 1986 work The Reckoning, as well as the infamous Michelle Remembers, an unreliable account of child abuse that contributed to the Satanic panic.
Benchley said "Jaws," his debut novel, was the offspring of childhood passion. Growing up on Nantucket in the 1940s and 1950s, he would see the dorsal and tail fins of sharks crisscrossing the oil ...
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In 1974, writer Peter Benchley published Jaws, a novel about a rogue great white shark that terrorizes the fictional Long Island coastal community of Amity. Chief of police Martin Brody, biologist Matt Hooper, and fisherman Quint hunt the shark after it kills four people. The novel was adapted as the film Jaws by Steven Spielberg in 1975.
Prior to the wide release of Jaws on June 20, 1975, the film's producers were busily readying the global rollout of what would be a defining summer blockbuster. Meanwhile, Universal launched "the ...