Were both Peter Benchley and Jack Finney authors?
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Peter Benchley Peter Bradford Benchley (May 8, 1940 – February 11, 2006) was an American author and screenwriter. He is known for the bestselling novel "Jaws" and co-wrote its subsequent film adaptation with Carl Gottlieb. Several more of his works were also adapted for cinema, including "The Deep", "The Island", "Beast", and "White Shark".
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Jack Finney Jack Finney (October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including "The Body Snatchers" and "Time and Again". The former was the basis for the 1956 movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and its remakes.
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Peter Jacobson (judge) Peter Michael Jacobson is a retired Judge of the Federal Court of Australia, having served from 17 June 2002 until 24 January 2015. He was in practice as a barrister before his appointment to the bench, practicing extensively in trade practices, commercial law, and equity. In May 1979 he was admitted to the NSW Bar Association.
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Robert Keable Robert Keable (6 March 1887 – 22 December 1927) was a British novelist, formerly a missionary and priest in the Church of England. He resigned his ministry following his experiences in the First World War and caused a scandal with his 1921 novel "Simon Called Peter", the tale of a priest's wartime affair with a young nurse. The book sold 600,000 copies in the 1920s alone, was referenced in "The Great Gatsby", and was cited in a double murder investigation. Fêted in the United States, but critically less than well-received, Keable moved to Tahiti where he continued to write, producing both novels and theological works, until his death at age 40 of a kidney complaint.
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Jasson Finney Jasson Finney is a Canadian actor.
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John Nihmey John Nihmey (September 22, 1951 – December 20, 2013) is a published author and founding partner of a leading communications firm, NIVA Inc. He authored Canada's most widely syndicated travel feature in the late 1970s, co-authored a best-selling book about the tragedy surrounding the government exploitation of the Dionne Quintuplets, and authored the critically acclaimed book about the demise of an Aboriginal woman at the hands of stereotyping and prejudice. John is listed in Who's Who in Canada . He lives in Ottawa, Canada and has two children.
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Samuel Griswold Goodrich Samuel Griswold Goodrich (August 19, 1793 – May 9, 1860) was an American author, better known under the pseudonym Peter Parley.
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Nat S. Finney Nathan Solon Finney (October 10, 1903 – December 18, 1982), who wrote under the name Nat S. Finney, was an American journalist. He spent long periods as a Washington correspondent for the "Minneapolis Tribune" and, later, the "Buffalo Evening News". A specialist on economics and nuclear energy, he covered atomic tests in the Pacific, was the first journalist to visit Los Alamos National Laboratory, and was the first to report on Soviet missiles in Cuba.
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James Crumley James Arthur Crumley (October 12, 1939 – September 17, 2008) was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. He has been described as "one of modern crime writing's best practitioners", who was "a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel" and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson. His book "The Last Good Kiss" has been described as "the most influential crime novel of the last 50 years."
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Turbulent Priests Turbulent Priests is the third novel of the "Dan Starkey" series by Northern Irish author, Colin Bateman, released on 6 December 1999 through Harper Collins. Bateman's usage of Rathlin Island (which he renamed "Wrathlin Island" in the novel) as the books setting led to Bateman being invited to unveil a "Writer's Chair", commemorating writers of all origin and genre.
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John Grant (children's author) John Grant (22 May 1930 - 23 February 2014) was a Scottish author and illustrator, possibly best known as the author of the "Littlenose" series of children's stories, which he read on the BBC's "Jackanory" in 55 programmes from 1968 to 1986.
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Poor Jack Poor Jack is a novel by the English author Frederick Marryat, published in 1840.
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Jack Irish Jack Irish is a television drama series and a series of Australian television movies adapted from the detective novels by Peter Temple. The series stars Guy Pearce in the lead role of Jack Irish, a former criminal lawyer turned private investigator and debt collector. The novels have been adapted by screenwriters Andrew Knight and Matt Cameron, and directed by Jeffrey Walker (the telemovies) and Kieran Darcy-Smith (the series).
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Peter Tinniswood Peter Tinniswood (21 December 1936 – 9 January 2003) was an English radio and TV comedy scriptwriter, and author of a series of popular cricketing novels. He was born in Liverpool, but grew up above a dry cleaner's on Eastway in Sale, Greater Manchester.
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Lord Peter Lord Peter is a collection of short stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey.
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Ian McPhedran Ian McPhedran (born 1957) is an Australian author and retired journalist. Having begun his journalism career at "The Canberra Times", from 1998 he worked as a defence writer for the News Corp Australia mastheads, including the "Herald Sun", "The Daily Telegraph" and "Northern Territory News", before announcing his retirement in January 2016. HarperCollins has published six books by McPhedran, who won a Walkley Award in 1999.
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Benjamin Tabart Benjamin Tabart (1767–1833) was an English publisher and bookseller of the Juvenile Library in New Bond Street, London. Many of the books in his list were written by himself. In an age of strictly moralizing children's literature, he broke ground with his fairy tales and light-hearted nursery stories and chapbook tales. His is the first printed version (1804) of the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk. Tabart had for an editor Mary Jane Clairmont, the second (Mrs William Godwin) and maintained close professional relations with the prolific publisher, Sir Richard Phillips.
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L.A. Meyer Louis A. Meyer (January 1, 1942 - July 29, 2014), was a Maine author. Writing under the name L.A. Meyer, he was best known for his young-adult historical series "The Jacky Faber Adventures", also known as the "Bloody Jack" series. He also wrote two children's picture books and was a painter. He and his wife owned an art gallery called Clair de Loon in Bar Harbor.
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Jack Staff Jack Staff is a British superhero created by comic book writer/artist Paul Grist. Billed as "Britain's Greatest Hero", it is known for being in the style of an anthology title and for its multi-linear plotlines.
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McCarthy's Bar McCarthy's Bar is the best selling book by travel writer and comedian Pete McCarthy. First published in 2000, the book sold nearly a million copies leading to McCarthy winning Newcomer of the Year at the British Book Awards in 2002.
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John Wainwright (author) John William Wainwright (25 February 1921 – September 1995), was a British crime novelist and author of 83 books, four of which have been published under the pen name Jack Ripley. He also wrote some short stories (mostly uncollected in book format), 7 radio plays, and an indefinite amount of magazine articles and newspaper columns.
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John Straley John Straley is a poet and author of detective fiction. He currently resides in Sitka, Alaska.