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| | Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Peter Benchley |
 | | He was born in New York, where his grandfather Robert was a New Yorker, writer and denizen of the Algonquin. |
 | | Brought up in the city, Peter Benchley was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and then, true to family tradition, at Harvard, where he studied English and, on graduating in 1961, travelled the world. |
 | | Among many activities, he made a series of films for the New England Aquarium, broadcast on a daily radio show, was a force in the Environmental Defence Fund and in WildAid. |
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