Born on this day – Winston Groom:

 

Writer

March 23, 1943 – September 17, 2020

Credits:

1942 (2005); A Storm in Flanders (2002); Alabama Noir (2020); As Summer Dies (1980); Better Times Than These (1978); Conversations With the Enemy (1983); Don't Quit Your Day Job: Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit (2010); El Paso (2016); Forrest Gump (1986); Gone the Sun (1996); Gump & Co. (1995); Gumpisms (1994); Kearny's March (2011); Only (1984); Patriotic Fire (2006); Ronald Reagan Our 40th President (2012); Shiloh, 1862 (2012); Shrouds of Glory (1995); Stories from the Blue Moon Café (2002); Such a Pretty, Pretty Girl (1997); The Allies (2018); The Aviators (2013); The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Cookbook (1994); The Crimson Tide (2000); The Generals (2015); The Patriots (2020); Vicksburg, 1863 (2009).