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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.
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.
Winston Groom's price for the screenplay rights to his 1986 novel Forrest Gump included a 3% share of the profits; however, due to Hollywood accounting, the 1994 film's commercial success was converted into a net loss, and Groom received only $350,000 for the rights and an additional $250,000 from Paramount. [11]
Based on the 1986 novel by Winston Groom, Gump, played by Tom Hanks, recounts his life story to the strangers he meets on a bus stop bench in Savannah's Chippewa Square.
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 ...
Winston Groom, the prodigious author who created the beloved literary character Forrest Gump, is dead at 77. The Washington, D.C.-born writer died in Fairhope, Ala., on Wednesday, confirmed ...
Gump & Co. (alternatively titled Forrest Gump and Co.) is a 1995 novel by Winston Groom. It is the sequel to his 1986 novel Forrest Gump . It was written to chronicle Forrest's life throughout the 1980s.
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