[KarenaD]

William Blatty - author of The Exorcist

by KarenaD on Sat Jan 14, 2017 3:56 pm

The Exorcist author, William Blatty, has died from multiple myeloma.

News article:

"William Peter Blatty, author of 'The Exorcist,' dies at 89," CNN, Jan 14, 2017 (full article)

Excerpt:

Author and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, who scared millions with the best-selling novel and Oscar-winning movie "The Exorcist," has died.

Blatty passed away Thursday evening at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, his widow, Julie Alicia Blatty, told CNN. He was 89.

"It was multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. He was only diagnosed last month," she said. "We were married for 33 years."

Blatty is best known for the 1971 New York Times best-seller "The Exorcist" and the film adaption of the novel, released in 1973, on which he served as producer and writer.