23.03.1944 (80 gadi) (Washington, District of Columbia, USA)
Winston Francis Groom, Jr. (born March 23, 1943) is an American novelist and non-fiction writer. He is known for writing Forrest Gump, which was adapted into a film by Robert Zemeckis in 1994. The film became a cultural phenomenon, and won six Academy Awards. He published a sequel, Gump and Co., in 1995. He has also written numerous non-fiction works, on diverse subjects including the American Civil War and World War I.