No Love For the Author

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Winston Groom would have been overjoyed to know that his novel inspired such a classic film. The creative minds behind the film said the movie would be poetic as to how much the novel would shape out the overall project. Sadly, no one ever recognized the author who wrote it.

Not one person even acknowledged him in a speech at the Academy Awards. No one bothered to mutter a single thank you to him in private as well. Essentially, he never saw a paycheck for his contributions to one of the best films of the nineties.

It didn’t get better for Groom as the lack of recognition would border on insulting in the story ahead.