# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/winston-groom
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:33:15.973Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/winston-groom"
name: "Winston Groom"
slug: "winston-groom"
description: "Winston Francis Groom Jr. was an American author. He is best known for his best-selling novel Forrest Gump (1986), which became a 1990s cultural phenomenon after being adapted as the film of the same name directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks. After the film was released, gaining a high box office and winning numerous awards, Groom's novel sold more than one million copies worldwide. Groom wrote a sequel, Gump & Co., published in 1995. His last novel was El Paso (2016)."
tagline: "American writer (1943-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Winston_Groom_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1943-03-23"
deathDate: "2020-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump