Winston Groom
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- Groom, Winston
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- Date of birth
- 1943-03-23
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- Date of death
- 2020-09-17
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Winston Francis Groom Jr. (March 23, 1943 – September 17, 2020) 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. After the film was released, gaining a high box office and winning numerous awards, Groom's novel sold more than one million copies worldwide. Groom wrote a sequel, Gump & Co., published in 1995. His last novel was El Paso (2016).
Groom wrote a total of fifteen nonfiction works on such varied subjects as the American Civil War and World War I, including five multiple biographies.
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- Winston Groom wrote Forrest Gump
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- 2025-10-04