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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 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) — biography from The Princess Bride… (more)
The Princess Bride 23,857 copies, 517 reviews
The Princess Bride [1987 film] (Screenwriter) 1,842 copies, 14 reviews
Marathon Man 1,105 copies, 20 reviews
Adventures in the Screen Trade 994 copies, 16 reviews
The Silent Gondoliers 507 copies, 13 reviews
Magic 465 copies, 9 reviews
Brothers 222 copies, 2 reviews
Boys & Girls Together 220 copies, 4 reviews
The Color of Light 189 copies, 1 review
The Temple of Gold 182 copies, 5 reviews
Tinsel 139 copies, 1 review
Control 131 copies, 1 review
Heat 119 copies
Hype and Glory 94 copies, 1 review
Soldier in the Rain 70 copies, 1 review
No Way To Treat A Lady 30 copies, 1 review
Father's Day 27 copies
Wigger 16 copies
The Great Waldo Pepper [1974 film] (Screenwriter) 11 copies
Magic [1978 film] (Screenwriter) 11 copies, 1 review
Year of the Comet [1992 film] (Screenwriter) 2 copies
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [1969 film] (Screenwriter) 353 copies, 5 reviews
The Right Stuff [1983 film] (Screenwriter) 290 copies, 2 reviews
A Bridge Too Far [1977 film] (Screenwriter) 262 copies, 1 review
All the President's Men [1976 film] (Screenwriter) 230 copies, 4 reviews
Misery [1990 film] (Screenwriter) 204 copies, 3 reviews
Maverick [1994 film] (Screenwriter) 199 copies, 2 reviews
Dreamcatcher [2003 film] (Screenwriter) 152 copies, 1 review
Absolute Power [1997 film] (Screenwriter) 129 copies, 3 reviews
The General's Daughter [1999 film] (Screenwriter) 96 copies, 1 review
The Best of All Possible Worlds (Contributor) 77 copies, 2 reviews
Chaplin [1992 film] (Screenwriter) 76 copies, 2 reviews
Hearts in Atlantis [2001 film] (Screenwriter) 72 copies
The Stepford Wives [1975 film] (Screenwriter) 57 copies, 1 review
Harper [1966 film] (Screenplay) 42 copies, 3 reviews
Inward Journey (Contributor) 11 copies
No Way to Treat a Lady [1968 film] (Original book) 5 copies, 2 reviews
New World Writing 17 (Contributor) 4 copies
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