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Winston Francis Groom Jr. (March 23, 1943 – September 17, 2020) [1] [2] was an American author. He is best known for his best-selling novel Forrest Gump (1986), which became a 1990s cultural phenomenon after being adapted as the film of the same name directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks .
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Forrest Gump is a 1986 novel by Winston Groom.The title character retells adventures ranging from shrimp boating and ping pong championships, to thinking about his childhood love, as he bumbles his way through American history, with everything from the Vietnam War to college football becoming part of the story.
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Gump and Co. – Winston Groom: Sequel to the 1986 novel Forrest Gump, published one year after that book's movie adaptation. 21: 125–130: July 8 – October 21, 2022 Super Constitution – Charles Kim Science-fiction novel about a "troika" of college students who create a single world government by technological means. 22: 131–134
4. The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien by J.R.R. Tolkien “The Road goes ever on and on/ Down from the door where it began./ Now far ahead the Road has gone/ And I must follow, if I can….”
A sequel had been in the works, due to the success of the first book and film. [6] Screenwriter Eric Roth submitted a script for the sequel on September 10, 2001, but after the September 11 attacks, there was a sense that "the world had changed" and that the plot of Gump and Co. was no longer relevant.
Winston Groom, the writer whose novel Forrest Gump was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a soaring pop cultural phenomenon, has died at age 77. Mayor Karin Wilson of Fairhope ...