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William Peter Blatty


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in New York, New York, The United States
January 07, 1928

Died
January 12, 2017

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William Peter Blatty was an American writer and filmmaker. He wrote the novel The Exorcist (1971) and the subsequent screenplay version for which he won an Academy Award. Born and raised in New York City, Blatty received his bachelor's degree in English from the Georgetown University in 1950, and his master's degree in English literature from the George Washington University in 1954. He also wrote and directed the sequel "The Exorcist III". Some of his other notable works are the novels Elsewhere (2009), Dimiter (2010) and Crazy (2010).
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The Exorcist

4.20 avg rating — 223,340 ratings — published 1971 — 121 editions
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Legion

3.71 avg rating — 10,988 ratings — published 1983 — 54 editions
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The Ninth Configuration

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Dimiter

3.15 avg rating — 1,070 ratings — published 2010 — 33 editions
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Elsewhere

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3.21 avg rating — 808 ratings — published 1989 — 13 editions
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Crazy

2.88 avg rating — 433 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions
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Finding Peter: A True Story...

3.12 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 2015 — 11 editions
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On The Exorcist: From Novel...

4.02 avg rating — 107 ratings6 editions
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I'll Tell Them I Remember You

3.59 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1973 — 13 editions
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Demons Five, Exorcists Noth...

3.08 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
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“God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.”
William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

“Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.”
William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
tags: faith

“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.”
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tags: hope

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