Marc Jaffe, Publisher of Paperback Hits, Is Dead at 102

Marc Jaffe was at a New Year’s Eve party of Hollywood types in 1967 when a screenwriter named William Peter Blatty began chatting him up. Mr. Blatty said he had tried and failed to sell an idea for a novel — about a young girl possessed by the devil and the tortured priest who tries to save her.…

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