2 grossing film at the box office, second only to “The Lion King.” The film dominated the 1995 Academy Awards, winning six Oscars including best picture, best director for Robert Zemeckis and best actor for Hanks. “It touched a nerve,” Groom told the Tuscaloosa News in 2014. The movie, which also starred Robin Wright and Mykelti Williamson, became deeply embedded in the American psyche and has remained an enduring television staple and huge cultural phenomenon since. It’s more subtle and more complicated … richer than the movie.” “But ‘Forrest Gump’ is really actually quite a fine novel. “You can make a lot of money as a comic writer, but you can’t get no respect,” Noble said. Don Noble, University of Alabama professor emeritus of English, and a 40-year friend of Groom’s told The Tuscaloosa News that the novel was “darker” and “richer” than the movie. The novel is considerably different from the film. Rebecca Williams and Tom Hanks in the “life is like a box of chocolates” scene from “Forrest Gump” Paramount/Everett Collection It was “Forrest Gump” - and the success of the 1994 movie starring Tom Hanks in the iconic role of Gump, as well as Sally Field and Gary Sinise - that earned him widespread fame and some financial success. One, “Conversations with the Enemy,” about a American prisoner of war in Vietnam accused of collaboration, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, according to the university. He wrote 16 books, fiction and nonfiction. His service included a tour in Vietnam - one of the settings for “Forrest Gump.” Groom served in the Army’s Fourth Infantry Division from 1965 to 1969, the university said. It was the best known book by Groom, who grew up in Mobile, Alabama, and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1965, according to a biography posted by the university. George Wallace’s “stand at the schoolhouse door,” to meetings with presidents. “Forrest Gump” was the improbable tale of a slow-witted but mathematically gifted man who was a participant or witness to key points of 20th century history - from Alabama segregationist Gov. Our hearts & prayers are extended to his family,” Alabama Gov. “While he will be remembered for creating Forrest Gump, Winston Groom was a talented journalist & noted author of American history. A local funeral home also confirmed the death and said arrangements were pending. Mayor Karin Wilson of Fairhope, Alabama, said in a message on social media that Groom had died in that south Alabama town. 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. Rising MMA star, 21, killed in 2 car collision on highway after not wearing seatbeltįAIRHOPE, Ala. 'Dead' reality TV star rumored to still be alive as sister's story falls apart: report Kellie Pickler’s husband Kyle Jacobs’ cause of death: new details

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