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14 January 2017

'Exorcist' author William Peter Blatty dead at 89

In this Sept. 29, 2010 file photo released by Starpix, "The Exorcist" author William Peter Blatty, left, joins Linda Blair, who starred in the 1973 film and William Friedkin, the film's director, at a screening of the remastered film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Blatty died, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, at a hospital in Bethesda, Md, of multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, according to his wife Julie. He was 89.

Novelist and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, a former Jesuit school valedictorian who conjured a tale of demonic possession and gave millions the fright of their lives with the best-selling novel and Oscar-winning movie "The Exorcist," has died. He was 89.

Blatty died Thursday at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, where he lived, his widow, Julie Alicia Blatty, told The Associated Press. The cause of death was multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, she said.