![]() ![]() This section needs additional citations for verification. Most of his service time was spent with the Fourth Infantry Division. Groom served in the United States Army from 1965 to 1967, including a tour of duty in the Vietnam War (from 66–67). ![]() He graduated with Omicron Delta Kappa honors in 1965. While serving as a literary editor in college, he settled on a new ambition to become a writer. Groom attended the University of Alabama, where he became a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity and the Army ROTC. His earliest ambition was to become a lawyer like his father. Winston Groom was raised in Mobile County, Alabama, where he attended the private University Military School (now known as UMS-Wright Preparatory School). He and his family returned to Mobile, Alabama where the senior Groom practiced law. Groom was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Ruth (Knudsen), an English teacher, and Winston Francis Groom, a lawyer at the Pentagon. He also wrote a total of fifteen non-fiction works on such varied subjects as the American Civil War and World War I, including five multiple biographies. Groom wrote a sequel, Gump and Co., published in 1995. After the film was released, gaining a high box office and winning numerous awards, Groom's novel sold more than one million copies worldwide. He is best known for his novel Forrest Gump (1986), which became a cultural phenomenon after being adapted as a 1994 film of the same name, starring Tom Hanks. (Ma– September 17, 2020) was an American novelist and non-fiction writer. ![]()
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