William Goldman (1931–2018)
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William Goldman was born in Highland Park, Illinois on August 12, 1931. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Oberlin College and a master's degree from Columbia University. He began his writing career in 1957 and wrote his first screenplay Masquerade in 1965. During his lifetime, he näytä lisää wrote more than 20 screenplays and over 20 novels. He wrote the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Misery, A Bridge Too Far, The Stepford Wives, and Chaplin. He adapted three screenplays from his own novels including The Princess Bride, Marathon Man, and Heat. His other novels included The Temple of Gold, No Way to Treat a Lady, Adventures in the Screen Trade, Hype and Glory, and Which Lie Did I Tell. He sometimes wrote under pseudonyms during his career including S. Morgenstern and Harry Langlaugh. He won three Lifetime Achievement Awards for Screenwriting, including the 1985 Laurel Award for Lifetime Achievement in Screenwriter. He won two Screenwriter of the Year Awards and two Academy Awards, one for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the other for All the President's Men. He also won an English Academy Award. He died from colon cancer and pneumonia on November 16, 2018 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure (2013) — Tekijä — 631 kappaletta
Wait Till Next Year: The Story of a Season When What Should've Happened Didn't, and What Could've Gone… (1988) 34 kappaletta
The novels of William Goldman : boys and girls together, marathon man, and the temple of gold. (2017) 5 kappaletta
All the President's Men: The Screenplay 4 kappaletta
The Princess Bride Screenplay 3 kappaletta
The Stepford Wives: The Screenplay 2 kappaletta
Misery: Based on the Novel by Stephen King 2 kappaletta
Aventures d'un scénariste à Hollywood 1 kappale
Duel Scene [from the Princess Bride] 1 kappale
True Love and High Adventure 1 kappale
Associated Works
Swords and Sorcerers: Stories from the Worlds of Fantasy and Adventure (2002) — Avustaja — 16 kappaletta
The Princess Bride Booklet (Criterion Collection 948) — Avustaja — 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Goldman, William Weil
- Muut nimet
- MORGENSTERN, Simon (pseudonym)
LONGBAUGH, Harry (pseudonym)
GOLDMAN, William W.
GOLDMAN, William - Syntymäaika
- 1931-08-12
- Kuolinaika
- 2018-11-16
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- New York, New York, USA
- Kuolinsyy
- cancer (colon)
- Asuinpaikat
- New York, New York, USA
Highland Park, Illinois. USA - Koulutus
- Oberlin College (BA|1952 - English)
Columbia University (MA|1956) - Ammatit
- playwright
novelist
screenwriter - Suhteet
- Goldman, James (brother)
- Organisaatiot
- Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Mystery Writers of America
US Army - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Academy Award for Best Screenplay (1969)
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (1976)
Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (1985)
Edgar Award (1967 and 1979)
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Joe's Book Cafe 2016 Door 18, 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (elokuu 2016)
A particular paperback edition of "Princess Bride", Name that Book (heinäkuu 2015)
Princess Bride question, Children's Fiction (helmikuu 2011)
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