![]() ![]() The Entity (1978), based on the real-life case of a woman named Doris Bither who claimed to have been haunted by a spectral rapist, was also a bestseller and was adapted by De Felitta for a 1982 film starring Barbara Hershey. This novel, a horror story involving reincarnation, was a smash bestseller, selling more than 2.5 million copies and spawning a successful 1977 film adaptation (scripted by De Felitta) and a sequel, For Love of Audrey Rose (1982). He continued to write radio scripts before turning to television, in which medium he was successful as a writer, producer, and director, winning Emmy nominations in 19 for his documentaries as well as a Peabody Award and several Writers Guild nominations.ĭe Felitta’s first novel, Oktoberfest (1973), a thriller, though not a bestseller nonetheless earned him enough to finance the year and a half he devoted to his next-and most famous-book, Audrey Rose (1975). His first effort, for the weekly radio program The Whistler, a popular thriller series, earned him $350 and started him on his writing career. He served as a pilot in World War II and in 1945 returned to New York, where he began to write scripts. ![]() ![]() Frank De Felitta was born in New York in 1921. ![]()
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