About the Author

William Peter Blatty is the bestselling author of The Exorcist, which he turned into an Academy Award-winning screenplay. The son of immigrant parents, he was a comic novelist before embarking on a four decade career as a Hollywood writer, penning the screenplays for A Shot in the Dark, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? , the Julie Andrews romantic comedy Darling Lili, and The Ninth Configuration (which he also directed) , among many other films. A graduate of Georgetown University, he lives with his wife, Julie, in Bethesda, Maryland.

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