What is Jaws (novel)?
{{italictitle}} '''''Jaws''''' is a 1974 [[United States|American]] novel by [[Peter Benchley]]. It is about a [[great white shark]] that eats several people in the [[ocean]] near a small town in [[Long Island]], [[New York]]. Three men set out on a boat to hunt and kill the shark. Benchley was partly inspired by the adventures of a shark [[fisherman]] named Frank Mundus. Millions of copies of the novel were sold. In 1975, a movie based on the book, also called [[Jaws (movie)|''Jaws'']], was released. The movie was [[Movie director|directed]] by [[Steven Spielberg]]. {{lit-stub}} [[Category:1974 books]] [[Category:20th-century American novels]] [[Category:New York (state) in fiction]] [[Category:Sharks]]