Question: What was the profession of Both Melissa Bank and Peter Benchley?

Context articles: Peter Benchley
The Deep (1977 film)
Jaws (film)
Melissa Bank
The Island (Benchley novel)
David Brown (producer)
Jaws (novel)
Jaws (franchise)
The Shark Is Still Working
Beast (Benchley novel)

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".
The Deep is a 1977 adventure film based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name.
 It was directed by Peter Yates, and stars Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset and Nick Nolte.
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.
Melissa Bank (born in 1961 in Philadelphia) is an American author.
 She has published two books, "The Wonder Spot" a volume of short stories, and "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing," a novel, which have been translated into over 30 languages.
 Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction.
 She currently teaches in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
The Island is a novel by Peter Benchley, published in 1979 by Doubleday & Co.
David Brown (July 28, 1916 February 1, 2010) was an American film and theatre producer and writer who was best known for coproducing the 1975 film Jaws based on the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley.
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.
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.
The Shark is Still Working is a feature-length documentary film on the impact and legacy of the 1975 Steven Spielberg blockbuster film "Jaws".
 It features interviews with a range of cast and crew from the film.
 It is narrated by Roy Scheider and dedicated to Peter Benchley.
Beast is a 1991 novel by Peter Benchley, the author of "Jaws".