William Peter Blatty (1928–2017)
Autore di L'esorcista
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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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
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Opere di William Peter Blatty
Finding Peter: A True Story of the Hand of Providence and Evidence of Life after Death (2015) 18 copie
If There Were Demons, Then Perhaps There Were Angels: William Peter Blatty's Own Story of the Exorcist (2001) 11 copie
EXORCIST confidential 2 copie
Hancarved Coffins [Screenplay] 1 copia
Der Exorzist : [Roman] 1 copia
Der Exorzist - Die neue Fassung 1 copia
The Exorcist III film press kit 1 copia
The Exorcist 1998 1 copia
"The Excorcist" Movie Pressbook 1 copia
Opere correlate
999 Racconti Inediti per un millennio da Brivido (1999) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 616 copie
Smoke and Mirrors: Screenplays, Teleplays, Stage Plays, Comic Scripts & Treatments (2014) — Collaboratore — 24 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Blatty, William Peter
- Data di nascita
- 1928-01-07
- Data di morte
- 2017-01-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA (birth)
- Luogo di nascita
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Causa della morte
- multiple myeloma
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
Malibu, California, USA - Istruzione
- Georgetown University (B.A.|1950)
George Washington University (M.A. ∙ English Literature|1954) - Attività lavorative
- screenwriter
novelist
movie producer - Organizzazioni
- United States Information Agency
United States Air Force - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Bram Stoker Award (Lifetime Achievement ∙ 1997)
Academy Award (1973)
Golden Globe - Breve biografia
- 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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- Opere
- 44
- Opere correlate
- 5
- Utenti
- 8,013
- Popolarità
- #3,022
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 210
- ISBN
- 263
- Lingue
- 18
- Preferito da
- 16
Il film contiene "più ciccia", il libro aggiunge dettagli sulla ricerca e sulle conoscenze psichiatriche dell'epoca, ma nell'insieme sono molto simili l'uno all'altro e se dovessi scegliere... forse preferirei il film. Il libro non aggiunge abbastanza ai personaggi, anzi, mi è capitato di fermarmi perché non capivo di chi si stesse parlando, visto che vengono usati a volte il nome, a volte il cognome, senza però caratterizzarli abbastanza. Lo stile è abbastanza scarno, in alcuni punti didascalico, e non mi ha trasmesso abbastanza emozioni.
Però l'ho trovato davvero interessante appunto: Scienza, teologia e esorcismi negli anni '60.… (altro)