威廉·彼得·布拉蒂

威廉·彼得·布拉蒂（英语：William Peter Blatty，1928年1月7日—2017年1月12日）是美国作家、导演和制片人。他以1971年的小说《驱魔人》和1974年改编的同名电影剧本而闻名。布拉蒂凭借《驱魔人》获得奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖，并作为其制片人获得最佳影片提名。布拉蒂还以制片人的身份凭这部电影获得了金球奖最佳戏剧类影片奖。

布拉蒂在纽约市出生和长大，1950年获得乔治城大学英语学士学位，并获得乔治·华盛顿大学英语文学硕士学位。1954年完成硕士学位后，他加入了美国空军并在心理战师服役，并获得中尉军衔。在空军服役后，他在贝鲁特为美国新闻署工作。

《驱魔人》大获成功后，布拉蒂重写了他1966年的小说《一闪一闪“杀手”凯恩！》（Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane!），1978年改名《精神病患》（The Ninth Configuration）出版。他继续将这部小说改编成同名电影《第九形态》（1980），这也是他的导演处女作。在第38届金球奖上，该片获得最佳编剧奖，并获得最佳影片提名。

布拉蒂拒绝参与《驱魔人》的第一部续集，该续集最终遭到批评。然而，他编剧并导演了第二部续集《驱魔人3》（1990），这部续集改编自他1983年的小说《群魔》。《驱魔人3》是他导演的第二部，也是最后一部导演和编剧的电影，此后退出电影界，继续在小说界活动，出版了多部小说。

书目

曾被翻译为简体中文的布拉蒂所著小说有：

驱魔人（1971）

精神病患（1978）

群魔（1983）

魔鬼迪米特尔（2010）

William Peter Blatty (January 7, 1928 – January 12, 2017) was a Lebanese American writer, director and producer. He is best known for his 1971 novel The Exorcist and for his screenplay for the 1973 film adaptation. Blatty won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Exorcist, and was nominated for Best Picture as its producer. The film also earned Blatty a Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama as producer.

Born and raised in New York City, Blatty received his bachelor's degree in English from Georgetown University in 1950, and his master's degree in English literature from the George Washington University. Following completion of his master's degree in 1954, he joined the United States Air Force and served in the Psychological Warfare Division where he attained the rank of first lieutenant. After service in the air force, he worked for the United States Information Agency in Beirut.

After the success of The Exorcist, Blatty reworked his 1966 novel Twinkle, Twinkle, "Killer" Kane! into a new novel titled The Ninth Configuration, published in 1978. He went on to adapt the novel into the 1980 film, which was also his directorial debut. At the 38th Golden Globe Awards, the film won Best Screenplay and was nominated for Best Picture.

Blatty refused to have any involvement with the first sequel to The Exorcist (1973); the film was critically panned. He directed the second sequel, The Exorcist III (1990), which he adapted from his 1983 novel Legion. His second film as a director, The Exorcist III was his final directorial credit and final screenplay credit. Some of his later novels include Elsewhere (2009), Dimiter (2010) and Crazy (2010).

Early life

Blatty was born on January 7, 1928, in New York City. He was the fifth and youngest child of Lebanese immigrants, Mary (née Mouakad; Arabic: ماري معقد بلاتي), a devout Melkite Catholic and the niece of bishop Germanos Mouakkad, and Peter Blatty (Arabic: بيتر بلاتي), a cloth cutter. His parents separated when he was a toddler. He was raised in what he described as "comfortable destitution" by his deeply religious mother, whose sole support came from peddling homemade quince jelly in the streets of Manhattan; she once offered a jar of it to Franklin D. Roosevelt when the President was cutting the ribbon for the Queens–Midtown Tunnel, telling him, "For when you have company." He lived at 28 different addresses during his childhood because of nonpayment of rent. "We never lived at the same address in New York for longer than two or three months at a time," Blatty told The Washington Post in 1972. "Eviction was the order of the day." Blatty's mother died in 1967.

He attended Brooklyn Preparatory, a Jesuit school, on a scholarship and graduated as class valedictorian in 1946. He later attended Georgetown University on a scholarship, where he earned his bachelor's degree in English in 1950. "Those years at Georgetown were probably the best years of my life," Blatty said in 2015. "Until then, I'd never had a home." While studying for his master's degree at George Washington University, Blatty took menial jobs. Initially unable to find a job in teaching, he worked as a vacuum-cleaner door-to-door salesman, a beer-truck driver, and as a United Airlines ticket agent. He earned his master's in English literature from the George Washington University in 1954. He then joined the United States Air Force.

Mustering out of the Air Force, he joined the United States Information Agency and worked as an editor based in Beirut, Lebanon. Eventually, his writing talent emerged, and he began submitting humorous articles to magazines.

He was the second uncle of singer Mika.