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, Alabama, said in a message on social media that Groom had died in that south Alabama town. A local funeral home also confirmed the death and said arrangements were pending. RELATED: Harper Lee, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ author, dies at 89 “While he will be remembered for creating Forrest Gump, Winston Groom was a talented journalist & noted author of American history.
Our hearts & prayers are extended to his family,” Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said in a statement. “Forrest Gump” was the improbable tale of a slow-witted but mathematically gifted man who
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