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Peter Benchley: just too deep for words

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19940615
Author:Alex Beam, Globe Staff

Submitted for the degree of doctor of philosophy in American literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: "Peter Benchley: A Modern Master."

ABSTRACT: Perhaps no 20th-century writer has been so misunderstood as Peter Benchley. A celebrant of Nature in the tradition of Fenimore Cooper, a tireless advocate of ecological and social justice a la Emile Zola, a student of Samuel Johnson and dogged disciple of Herman Melville, Benchley has secured his position as a writer not of the moment, but of the ages.

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