Jay Anson (4 November 1921-12 March 1980) was an American author whose first (and most famous) work was The Amityville Horror. After the runaway success of that novel, he wrote 666, which also dealt with a haunted house. He died in 1981. November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... March 12 is the 71st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (72nd in Leap years). ... 1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... The Amityville Horror was a best-selling 1977 novel by Jay Anson, and a 1979 film , about a family that moves into a house in the New York village of Amityville, on the south shore of Long Island where a murder was committed, and finds that the house exerts a...