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Jaws author Peter Benchley died Saturday at the age of 65. Idiopathic fibrosis, a condition marked by the progressive and ultimately fatal scarring of the lungs, did in the writer, on whose novel the best killer-shark movie ever was based.

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Jaws author Peter Benchley died Saturday at the age of 65. Idiopathic fibrosis, a condition marked by the progressive and ultimately fatal scarring of the lungs, did in the writer, on whose novel the best killer-shark movie ever was based.