William Peter Blatty (1928–2017)
Auteur de L'exorciste
A propos de l'auteur
William Peter Blatty was born in Manhattan, New York on January 7, 1928. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1950. After serving in the Air Force, he worked for the United States Information Agency in Beirut. He returned to the United States for a public relations job in Los Angeles, where afficher plus he hoped to begin his career as a writer. In 1961, he appeared as a contestant on You Bet Your Life. He and a fellow contestant won $10,000. He quit his day job and become a full-time writer. He collaborated with the director Blake Edwards on the screenplays for several films including A Shot in the Dark, What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?, Darling Lili, and Gunn. He wrote several horror fiction books including The Exorcist, The Ninth Configuration, and Legion. All of the books were adapted into movies with the screenplays written by Blatty. He won an Academy Award for The Exorcist screenplay. He also adapted his novel John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! for the screen. He wrote several memoirs including Which Way to Mecca, Jack?, I'll Tell Them I Remember You, and Finding Peter. He died from multiple myeloma on January 12, 2017 at the age of 89. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de William Peter Blatty
Finding Peter: A True Story of the Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life after Death (2015) 18 exemplaires
The Exorcist: The Complete Anthology [videorecording] (2014) — Screenwriter; Directeur — 11 exemplaires
If There Were Demons, Then Perhaps There Were Angels: William Peter Blatty's Own Story of the Exorcist (2001) 11 exemplaires
EXORCIST confidential 2 exemplaires
Hancarved Coffins [Screenplay] 1 exemplaire
Der Exorzist - Die neue Fassung 1 exemplaire
The Exorcist 1998 1 exemplaire
L’Exorciste, la suite (Exorcist, #2) 1 exemplaire
"The Excorcist" Movie Pressbook 1 exemplaire
Autograph, Exorcist, S. cut paper 1 exemplaire
The Exorcist III: Legion [screenplay] 1 exemplaire
The Exorcist III film press kit 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
999, le livre du millénaire des maîtres du fantastique (1999) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 616 exemplaires
Smoke and Mirrors: Screenplays, Teleplays, Stage Plays, Comic Scripts & Treatments (2014) — Contributeur — 24 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Blatty, William Peter
- Date de naissance
- 1928-01-07
- Date de décès
- 2017-01-12
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA (birth)
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Cause du décès
- multiple myeloma
- Lieux de résidence
- New York, New York, USA
Malibu, California, USA - Études
- Georgetown University (B.A.|1950)
George Washington University (M.A. ∙ English Literature|1954) - Professions
- screenwriter
novelist
movie producer - Organisations
- United States Information Agency
United States Air Force - Prix et distinctions
- Bram Stoker Award (Lifetime Achievement ∙ 1997)
Academy Award (1973)
Golden Globe - Courte biographie
- Blatty was born in New York City, the son of Lebanese parents Mary (née Mouakad) and Peter Blatty, a carpenter.[1] His father left home when William was six years old. Raised in relative poverty by his deeply religious Catholic mother, he apparently lived at twenty-eight different addresses during his childhood. He attended several Catholic and Jesuit schools before finding his raison d'etre and attending Georgetown University and George Washington University to study English. In the mid-1950s, Blatty was a contestant on the quiz show You Bet Your Life, winning $10,000: enough money to enable him to devote more time to writing professionally.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 43
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 7,963
- Popularité
- #3,047
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 210
- ISBN
- 262
- Langues
- 18
- Favoris
- 16
Avant que William Friedkin ne le transpose à l'écran et qu'il devienne un classique du cinéma, rel="nofollow" target="_top">L'Exorciste fut d'abord un roman à succès, tout aussi glaçant que sa formidable adaptation. Paru en 1971, ce best-seller (inspiré d'une histoire vraie) du scénariste William Peter Blatty décrit le monstrueux dérèglement du comportement de Regan, 12 ans, gamine de Washington. Faute d'explication rationnelle, sa mère décide de faire appel à un prêtre, qui tentera de la délivrer du démon qui la possède. Si ce roman effraie encore aujourd'hui, c'est moins par ce qu'il raconte que par le style clinique de l'auteur, par ses non-dits et par sa manière de dépeindre l'Amérique matérialiste. Un savoir-faire confirmé par le nouveau roman du peu prolifique Blatty (83 ans), Dimiter (Robert Laffont).
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