He became a member of the Alabama Writers’ Hall of Fame 2018 class. All the characters that he creates speak with Southern voices, and the life in his works moves in line with a distinctive Southern timeline. Groom’s Southerness permeates in all of his fiction and non-fiction books. When Groom received the prestigious Harper Lee Award in 2011. Winston Groom is a renowned Southern novelist. After moving to New York City, he completed his first novel, Better Times Than These, set in the Vietnam War and published in 1978. Groom later worked as a reporter for the Washington Star, but gave that up to devote himself to fiction. Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, hurculean, and surprisingly savy hero of this remarkable comic odyssey. He graduated from the University of Alabama in with an English degree in 1965, and embarked on a tour of duty in Vietnam. Groom wrote Forrest Gump in six weeks.īorn March 23, 1944, in Washington, D.C., and raised in Mobile County, Alabama, Groom turned to writing in college. Groom said the novel was inspired by a story his father related about a neighbor’s child who displayed savant behavior. And that’s, I think, where I hooked ‘em.” “If I could convince, persuasively, a reader that Coach Paul Bryant would take an idiot and put him on the football team, they’d believe anything.Once you hook your reader, they’ll go for the rest.
In a 2014 interview with the Tuscaloosa News, Groom said the novel was “a farce, and that’s hard to do.
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