Usually there was a black and white photo of six scientists sitting in a jaw.īut nothing was ever written about it that you could follow up with. There was always a little blurb listed about its prehistoric cousin - the megalodon. I started going to the library, picking up every book I could find about real great white shark attacks. S.A : How did I get started with megalodon? When I was 15 years old I read “ Jaws,” as a lot of teens did and really became curious about the great white sharks. Q: Megalodon is actually creature that now an extinct species of shark that lived from about 23million to 3.6 million years ago during the early Miocene to Pliocene period. What led you to study the megalodon and study shark history as well? Alten is the founder and director of Adopt-An-Author, a nationwide secondary-school free-reading program promoting works from six authors, including his own.Įxclusive Interview with Author Steve Alten Alten holds a bachelor’s degree from the Pennsylvania State University, a master’s in sports medicine from the University of Delaware, and a doctorate in sports administration from Temple University. He is best known for his Meg series of novels set around the fictitious survival of the megalodon, a giant, prehistoric shark. Steven Robert Alten (born August 21, 1959, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American science-fiction author.

The Deep by Peter Benchley