William Peter Blatty, Author of ‘The Exorcist,’ Dies at 89 - The New York Times
Paul Vitello
In every account, he said the idea for “The Exorcist” was planted in 1949, when he was a student at the Georgetown University in Washington and read an account in The Washington Post of an exorcism under the headline “Priest Frees Mt.
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