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William Peter Blatty
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![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/William-Peter-Blatty-2009.jpg/220px-William-Peter-Blatty-2009.jpg) William Peter Blatty inside of his home office in 2009
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Born
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1928-01-07
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January 7, 1928
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Died
| January 12, 2017
(2017-01-12)
(aged 89)
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Cause of death
| Multiple myeloma
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Alma mater
| Georgetown University
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Occupation(s)
| Novelist, screenwriter, film director
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William Peter Blatty
(January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was an
American
writer, screenwriter, and movie director.
[1]
The novel
The Exorcist
, written in 1971,
[1]
is his most well-known novel. He was the screenwriter of the
movie adaptation
. He won an
Academy Award
for it. He also wrote and directed the third movie of the trilogy,
The Exorcist III
.
[1]