![FILE - In this April 29, 2016, file photo, "Forrest Gump" author Winston Groom speaks to students at Jinks Middle School in Panama City, Fla. Groom, the author of the novel "Forrest Gump" that was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a soaring pop culture hit, has died, an Alabama official close to the writer said Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. He was 77. (Andrew Wardlow/News Herald via AP)](https://thenational-the-national-prod.cdn.arcpublishing.com/resizer/v2/T2Q6TYMFKDRSGUJLBYO2DPCFLY.jpg?smart=true&auth=cacf2878ccf3aad91f014167afc2c3cecba198a6b2ca908d96311ecb7b67d80c&width=400&height=225)
'Forrest Gump' author Winston Groom has died at the age of 77. AP
'Forrest Gump' author Winston Groom has died at the age of 77. AP
'Forrest Gump' author Winston Groom has died at the age of 77
Groom penned the novel that went on to become an Oscar-winning blockbuster
Associated Press
18 September, 2020