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. 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 an 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 in or witness to key points of 20th century history - from Alabama segregationist Gov.
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