Working together, writers, directors, and performers not only created “The Exorcist,” one of Hollywood ... Blatty decided it was time to turn to books. Years before, while a student at ...

William Peter Blatty, the Georgetown alumnus who wrote the novel on which “The Exorcist” was based ... Father Schroth was critical of the book too: “[Blatty] has brought forth—along ...

According to the book "The Exorcist Legacy," Blatty wrote the novel after winning $10,000 on the Groucho Marx quiz show "You Bet Your Life" in 1961. The book and subsequent film "destroyed my ...

The incident that inspired the movie for the book and movie "The Exorcist ... says William Peter Blatty, who wrote the novel ''The Exorcist, '' inspired by the incident. ''Some of the markings ...