Question: Neal Stephenson and Peter Benchley, are of which nationality?

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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".

Jaws (film): Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's 1974 novel of the same name.  In the story, a giant man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers on Amity Island, a fictional New England summer resort town, prompting the local police chief to hunt it with the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter.  The film stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, Robert Shaw as shark hunter Quint, Richard Dreyfuss as oceanographer Matt Hooper, Murray Hamilton as Larry Vaughn, the mayor of Amity Island, and Lorraine Gary as Brody's wife, Ellen.  The screenplay is credited to both Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography.

The Baroque Cycle: The Baroque Cycle is a series of novels by American writer Neal Stephenson.  It was published in three volumes containing 8 books in 2003 and 2004.  The story follows the adventures of a sizeable cast of characters living amidst some of the central events of the late 17th and early 18th centuries in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Central America.  Despite featuring a literary treatment consistent with historical fiction, Stephenson has characterized the work as science fiction, because of the presence of some anomalous occurrences and the work's particular emphasis on themes relating to science and technology.  The sciences of cryptology and numismatics feature heavily in the series, as they do in some of Stephenson's other works.

Snow Crash: Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.  Like many of Stephenson's other novels it covers history, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, religion, computer science, politics, cryptography, memetics and philosophy.

Jaws (novel): Jaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley.  It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it.  The novel grows out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964.  Doubleday commissioned him to write the novel in 1971, a period when Benchley struggled as a freelance journalist.

The Confusion: The Confusion is a novel by Neal Stephenson.  It is the second volume in "The Baroque Cycle" and consists of two sections or books, "Bonanza" and "The Juncto".  In 2005, "The Confusion" won the Locus Award, together with "The System of the World", also by Stephenson.

Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing: Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing is a collection of short fiction and nonfiction by the speculative fiction author Neal Stephenson.  It is primarily composed of Stephenson's previously published articles, essays, and interviews although it does contain the previously unpublished short stories "Arsebestos" and "Under-Constable Proudfoot."

The Great Simoleon Caper: "The Great Simoleon Caper" is a short story by Neal Stephenson that appeared in "TIME" on March 1, 1995.  It deals with concepts familiar to Stephenson's fans: encryption, digital currency, and distributed republics.  It appears to be set in a United States that precedes the events in Stephenson's novel "Snow Crash" (1992), using an early version of his Metaverse.

Jaws (franchise): Jaws is an American natural horror film series that started with a 1975 film that expanded into three sequels, a theme park ride, and other tie-in merchandise, based on a 1974 novel.  The main subject of the saga is a great white shark, and its attacks on people in specific areas of the United States.  The Brody family is featured in all of the films as the primary antithesis to the shark.  The original film was based on a novel written by Peter Benchley, which itself was inspired by the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916.  Benchley adapted his novel, along with help from Carl Gottlieb and Howard Sackler, into the 1975 film "Jaws", which was directed by Steven Spielberg.  Although Gottlieb went on to pen two of the three sequels, neither Benchley nor Spielberg returned to the film series in any capacity.

Neal Stephenson: Neal Town Stephenson (born October 31, 1959) is an American writer and game designer known for his works of speculative fiction.

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Answer: American