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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 novel Forrest Gump (1986), which became a cultural phenomenon after being adapted as a 1994 film of the same name, starring Tom Hanks.
Sep 18, 2020 · Winston Francis Groom, Jr., 1943-2020. Winston Groom, the prolific writer best known as the creator of Forrest Gump, died September 17 in Fairhope, Alabama, his family announced. He was 77. No cause of death was given. Groom grew up in Mobile.
Sep 18, 2020 · Winston Francis Groom Jr. was born on March 23, 1943, in Washington, the only child of Winston Sr. and Ruth (Knudsen) Groom. His father was a lawyer for the Pentagon who returned to...
- Steven Kurutz
Groom, Winston 1944- (Winston Francis Groom, Jr.) PERSONAL: Born March 23, 1944 (some sources say 1943), in Washington, DC; son of Winston Francis (an attorney) and Ruth Groom; married Ruth Noble (an importer), 1969 (divorced, 1974); married Anne-Clinton Bridges, 1987; children: Carolina Montgomery.
Sep 19, 2020 · Winston Groom, a Vietnam veteran and onetime newspaper reporter who found fame as the author of “Forrest Gump,” the novel that was the basis of the blockbuster film starring Tom Hanks as a...
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Sep 16, 2020 · Winston Francis Groom Jr. was an American novelist and non-fiction writer, best known for his book Forrest Gump, which was adapted into a film in 1994. Groom was born in Washington, D.C., but grew up in Mobile, Alabama where he attended University Military School (now known as UMS-Wright Preparatory School).
Sep 18, 2020 · Writer Winston Groom, whose novel Forrest Gump was made into the hugely successful Oscar-winning 1994 film starring Tom Hanks, has died aged 77. The book, about the childlike optimism of a...
