![]() ![]() ![]() Morgan), used to talk about his family’s million-acre cattle ranch in northern Mexico, and how Pancho Villa attacked it in 1916. But there was one idea for a novel that stuck in Groom’s head: He says a friend, Eddie Morgan (a distant relative of the late J.P. He wrote non-fiction books about the Civil War, the American West, World War I, World War II, the history of aviation and the history of Alabama football. ![]() ![]() … So I was thinking, after the commercial success of Forrest Gump, that I didn’t really have any ideas that really grabbed me.” “I think that every novelist of the kind of novels that I write has in them maybe one really good book,” Groom says, “but the trouble with so many novelists is that they keep on writing novels even when they run out of ideas. And that’s when Groom took a break from writing fiction. Eight years after Forrest Gump was published, its Oscar-winning film adaptation (starring Tom Hanks) turned it into a best-seller. The novel follows an intellectually-disabled, kind-hearted man who is witness to big events in American history. Groom wrote two more books about Vietnam before he started the story that would make him famous: Forrest Gump. ![]()
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