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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 24, 2004
PETER BENCHLEY, AUTHOR OF JAWS,
OPENS EXHIBITION OF HIS LIFE’S WORK
AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY
BOSTON – Peter Benchley, author
of JAWS, will speak about
his life and career at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research
Center at Boston University, opening his new exhibition, PETER
BENCHLEY: Three Decades of Writing the Sea. The exhibition
will be open to the public from October 1 through November
10 on the main floor of Boston University’s Mugar Library,
771 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston .
Included in the exhibition are first
editions and manuscript pages from a number of Benchley’s
works including Jaws, The Island,
and Beast; as well as film
scripts and photographs.
Benchley’s longtime fascination
with the sea became part of literary history in 1974 when
his first novel, JAWS, found its place on the New
York Times Best Seller list for more than 40 weeks. The
film based on JAWS by Steven
Spielberg was nominated for four Academy Awards and won three. The
sea became a recurring theme in Benchley’s work with
THE DEEP, THE ISLAND, and
THE GIRL OF THE SEA OF CORTEZ,
and continuing with the more recent OCEAN
PLANET and SHARK TROUBLE.
Benchley’s personal archive is
housed at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center along
with the archives of more than 2,000 other notable figures
of the twentieth century, including those of his father Nathaniel,
a novelist and reporter for the New
York Herald Tribune and Newsweek
during the 1940s; and grandfather Robert, a humorist, actor,
and member of the Algonquin Round Table, who wrote for Vanity
Fair and the New Yorker
in the 1920s.
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