William Peter Blatty was a senior at Georgetown University ... “Appallingly effective on the surface,” Gary Arnold wrote in The Washington Post, “ ‘The Exorcist’ is appallingly ...

"Exorcist" author William Peter Blatty has a new book out. Titled "Finding Peter," it's part comic memoir, part argument for life after death. Blatty, a lifelong Catholic, lays out a number of ...

William Peter Blatty is not ... Exorcist” rocked the country, and Washington itself, soon after its 1971 publication. By June of that year, shortly after Blatty’s appearance on “The Dick ...

(Perhaps a more pressing question: Why did he come to D.C. to film a musical-comedy version of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ... that owes a lot to Blatty’s own. He drinks and smokes ...

William Peter Blatty ... The Archdiocese of Washington called the Sebelius invitation "shocking." Blatty, 85, credits a Georgetown scholarship with fostering his writing career, which includes ...

William Peter Blatty (CAS ’50) was most well-known for writing ... In a 1972 interview with The Washington Post, Blatty recounted a childhood marked by unpaid bills and frequent moves that led him to ...

NEW YORK — Novelist and filmmaker William Peter Blatty ... Inspired by an incident that unfolded in St. Louis and Washington, D.C., that Blatty had read about while in college, “The Exorcist ...

Novelist and filmmaker William Peter ... Blatty, told the Associated Press. The cause of death was multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, she said. Inspired by an incident in a Washington ...

Novelist and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, a former Jesuit school ... Inspired by an incident that unfolded in St. Louis and Washington, D.C., that Blatty had read about while in college ...

William Peter Blatty ... a master’s in English literature from George Washington U. in 1954. While nursing a nascent writing career, Blatty worked in PR, serving as public relations director ...