Jaws
- Author name: Peter Benchley
- Date published: 1974
Peter
Benchley, a former journalist, penned a simple story about a beach town being
terrorized by a great white shark, in an attempt to salvage his floundering
career in the early 1970s. Luckily for him, the book was a smashing success and
managed to do just that. Thanks to an incredible marketing strategy by his
editor Thomas Congdon, “Jaws” remained on The New York Times’ hardback bestseller list for 44 weeks, and was turned into a
movie directed by none other than Steven Spielberg.
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