Peter Benchley, author of the novel, Jaws, and a screenwriter on the Spielberg movie based on the novel, has died at home in Princeton, New Jersey as a result of a lung disease. He was 65.
He was the grandson of Robert Benchley, and son of the author Nathaniel Benchley.
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