Home    Awards    New Books    Coming Soon    Most Popular    Top Authors    Series    Years    
Peter Benchley's picture

Peter Benchley

(Peter Bradford Benchley)
USA  (1940 - 2006)
Search Authors

Search Books

 
About Peter Benchley
After graduating from Harvard, Peter Benchley worked as a reporter for The Washington Post, then as an editor at Newsweek and a speechwriter in the White House. His novel Jaws was published in 1974, followed by The Deep, The Island, The Girl of the Sea of Cortez, Q Clearance, Rummies, and Beast, among others. He has written screenplays for three of his novels, and his articles and essays have appeared in such publications as National Geographic and The New York Times. He has written, narrated, and appeared in dozens of television documentaries. He is a member of the national council of Environmental Defense and is a spokesman for its Oceans Program.
 
Links to other websites
peterbenchley.com


Peter Benchley recommends
The Fury and the Power
The Fury and the Power (2003)
(Fury, book 3)
John Farris
"Farris has a genius for creating compelling suspense."



Visitors to this page also looked at these authors
M C Beaton
David Baldacci
Lilian Jackson Braun
Clive Cussler
Nevada Barr
Michael Connelly
Steve Berry
Dan Brown
Tom Clancy
James Patterson
Dean Koontz
John Sandford
James Lee Burke
Lee Child
Ray Bradbury



Search for    

© 2008 FantasticFiction
Questions? Comments? Corrections? Please email webmaster@fantasticfiction.co.uk
Page author: D C Wands     Last Updated: