UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR: (Reading) So whatever ails old General Forrest done, starting up that Klan thing was not a good idea. LIMBONG: What's played for a brief joke in the movie is, in the book, an almost William Faulkner-like metaphor for Southern history and familial baggage. And even my grandmama say they's a bunch of no-goods. And he was a great man, she'd say, except when he started up the Ku Klux Klan after the war was over. UNIDENTIFIED NARRATOR: (Reading) Mama always said we was kin to General Forrest's family some way. In the audio book, listen to the way the character reckons with his namesake, the notorious Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest. NPR's Andrew Limbong has this appreciation.ĪNDREW LIMBONG, BYLINE: The Forrest Gump from the book is bigger, burlier, a little rougher around the edges than Tom Hanks in the movie. TOM HANKS: (As Forrest Gump) My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get.ĬORNISH: Winston Groom died Wednesday in Fairhope, Ala., where he was remembered by the city's mayor as well as the state's governor. He wrote the novel "Forrest Gump," which of course eventually became the Oscar-winning hit movie starring Tom Hanks. In 2018, he was inducted into the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame.Writer Winston Groom has died. In 2016, Groom published his first novel in almost two decades, El Paso. In 2011, Groom would be honored with the Harper Lee Award for Alabama's Distinguished Writer of the Year. Vicksburg, 1863 earned particularly high praise. Groom's work as a narrative historian has earned him much praise by general reviewers, who see him as presenting historical events in a novelistic manner for a general readership. He followed these with 1942: The Year that Tried Men's Souls (2005), Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Lafitte at the Battle of New Orleans (2006), and, most recently, Vicksburg, 1863 (2009). In 2002, he published A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front. In 2000, Groom published The Crimson Tide: An Illustrated History of Football at the University of Alabama. His first such book, Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War, was published in 1994. Winston Groom, 2013Groom's more recent work has focused on historical nonfiction. Cookbook (1994) and Forrest Gump: My Favorite Chocolate Recipes Mama's Fudge, Cookies, Cakes, and Candies (1995). He also followed the movie's success with two cookbooks: The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Groom, trying to build on the movie's popularity, quickly published the short work Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump (1994) and the novel Gump and Co. In the wake of the film's success, however, Forrest Gump became a bestseller (1.7 million copies). The plot of the film diverges greatly from that of the novel, in which the protagonist eventually becomes a wrestler, an astronaut, and even a chess player moreover, the film's Gump is rather more naïve and optimistic than the Gump of Groom's novel. Forrest Gump tells the story of a simple-minded innocent whose life intersects the critical historical moments that occur during the tumultuous period of American history that includes the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, and America's involvement in Vietnam. Early reviews of the book were generally favorable, although more than one reviewer stated that the novel lacked depth in both character and plot. Although it was published in 1986, the book was not well known until it was adapted for the film of the same name in 1994. In 1985, Groom returned to Mobile and began writing Forrest Gump.
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