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 ...

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 ...

(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 ... Julie Witbrodt Blatty. Blatty was a junior at Georgetown University when, in 1949, he became mesmerized by a Washington Post story detailing the alleged exorcism by ...