![]() ![]() He attended a Catholic grammar school, St Stephen's in New York,īrooklyn Preparatory, a Jesuit High School, and Georgetown University,Īlso a Jesuit school, receiving a bachelor's degree. Religious, which influenced Blatty's childhood and choice of schools. Own quince jelly, selling it on the streets of New York. Blatty's mother, Mary, made and packaged her When Blatty was six, hisįather left home, and in the space of the years the family lived at Philosophers in the Middle East in his day. His great uncle, Germanios Mouakad, was one of leading ![]() William Peter Blatty was born in New York City, the fifth and youngest child of LebaneseĬatholic immigrants. Trying comedy, because it was the laughs that got me." (from Faces of Fear by Douglas E. I just fell apart with laughter,Īnd I would call my friends and read the entire story to them. "I remember very distinctly reading a funny ghost or terror story in Unknown by Robert Bloch. His early works include the screenplay for A Shot in the Dark (1964), a hilarious Peter Sellers farce about the accident-prone Inspector Clouseau's investigations. Blatty did not start as a horror writer, but a withĬomedies. Together with a worldwide boom for the supernatural, it gained enormousĬommercial success. In which a small girl is unaccountably possessed by the devil and A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĪmerican screenwiter and novelist, who gained international fame with the theological horror tale Exorcist (1971), ![]()
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