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โForrest Gumpโ author Winston Groom dead at 77
Read full article: โForrest Gumpโ author Winston Groom dead at 77FAIRHOPE, Ala. โ Winston Groom, the writer whose novel โForrest Gumpโ was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a soaring pop cultural phenomenon, has died at age 77. โWhile he will be remembered for creating Forrest Gump, Winston Groom was a talented journalist & noted author of American history. โIt touched a nerve,โ Groom told the Tuscaloosa News in 2014. They โtook some of the rough edges off,โ Groom told the New York Times in 1994. Groom got $350,000 for the rights to โForrest Gumpโ plus 3% of the net profit of the movie.