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William Peter Blatty

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The novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter William Peter Blatty was born in 1928. The Exorcist was first published in 1971 and has become one of the defining works of horror fiction. His other novels include The Ninth Configuration, Legion, Elsewhere and Dimiter. He died in 2017.

Books by William Peter Blatty

The Exorcist

For millions of readers, William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist is still the most terrifying novel ever written; and the film - written by Blatty and directed by William Friedkin - is still, 50 years after it was first released, one of the most shocking films ever made . . .

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