'Jaws' Author Peter Benchley Dead at Age 65

Fox News Peter Benchley, whose novel "Jaws" terrorized millions of swimmers even as the author himself became an advocate for the conservation of sharks, has died at age 65, his widow said Sunday. Wendy Benchley, married to the author for 41 years, said he died Saturday night at their home in Princeton, N.J. The cause of death, she said, was idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive and a fatal scarring of the lungs. My favorite benchley book was 'The Island'. He isn't one of my favorite authers but I did enjoy his work.