Winston Groom

Winston Groom ( born March 23, 1943 in Washington, DC ) is an American author. His published 1986 novel Forrest Gump was filmed in 1994 with the same title, directed by Robert Zemeckis.

Life

Winston Groom in 1943 in Washington, D.C. born, but grew up in Mobile, Alabama, and studied at the University of Alabama, where he was a member of the fraternity Delta Tau Delta. He went off in 1965. In the same year he joined the United States Army, where he served until 1969. Among other things, he also fought in the Vietnam War.

Works

Novels

  • Better Times Than These, 1978
  • As Summers Die, 1980 (Eng. The last days of summer. Novel, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-453-10816-7 )
  • Only in 1984
  • Forrest Gump, 1986 ( German Forrest Gump. Novel, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-453-08482-9 22nd edition below )
  • Gone the Sun, 1988
  • Gump and Co., 1995 (Eng. Forrest Gump & Co., Munich 1996, ISBN 3-453-08667-8 )
  • Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl, 1999

Historical Books

  • Conversations with the Enemy (1983, with Duncan Spencer )
  • Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War (1995 )
  • A Storm in Flanders: Triumph and Tragedy on the Western Front ( 2002)
  • 1942: The Year That Tried Men 's Souls (2005)

Other

  • GUMPisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump, 1994
  • The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Cookbook: Recipes & Reflections from Forrest Gump, 1994 (Eng. The Bubba Gump Shrimp - cookbook recipes and quotes from Forrest Gump, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-453-08664-3. )
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