William Peter Blatty
Died on January 12, 2017 at age 89
Mr. Blatty’s best-selling novel “The Exorcist,” about a girl possessed by a demon, created the theological-horror genre, became a hit movie and destroyed its author’s hopes of ever writing comedy again.
Notable Deaths 2017
Remembering Mary Tyler Moore, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lewis, David Rockefeller, Trisha Brown, Glen Campbell, Dick Gregory, Edith Windsor, Sam Shepard, Tom Petty and many others who died this year.