Author. He was best known for writing Forrest Gump which was turned into the 1994 film "Forrest Gump". The film was considered a huge success and won six Academy Awards. In 1995, he published the sequel book "Gump and Co." and he also wrote many non-fiction works on diverse subjects including the American Civil War and World War I. He served in the United States Army from 1965 to 1967, including a tour of duty in the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1967. Upon his return, he was a reporter for a Washington, DC newspaper covering the justice department and federal court system. He left to write novels and his first was published in 1978 called Better Times Than These which was about a rifle company in the Vietnam War. His next novel, As Summers Die (1980), received a better response. His book Conversations with the Enemy (1982) follows an American Vietnam War soldier who escapes from a Prisoner of War camp and takes a plane back to the United States only to be arrested 14 years later for desertion. It became a finalist in 1984 for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. In 1986, Forrest Gump was published, but it did not make him a best-selling author until it was adapted into a film with the same name in 1994 with Tom Hanks starring in the title role of Forrest Gump. The movie shot the novel to best-seller status, and it sold 1.7 million copies worldwide. In November 2011, he introduced a history book, Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846–1847 and in 2016, El Paso, his first novel in nearly 20 years, was published.
Author. He was best known for writing Forrest Gump which was turned into the 1994 film "Forrest Gump". The film was considered a huge success and won six Academy Awards. In 1995, he published the sequel book "Gump and Co." and he also wrote many non-fiction works on diverse subjects including the American Civil War and World War I. He served in the United States Army from 1965 to 1967, including a tour of duty in the Vietnam War from 1966 to 1967. Upon his return, he was a reporter for a Washington, DC newspaper covering the justice department and federal court system. He left to write novels and his first was published in 1978 called Better Times Than These which was about a rifle company in the Vietnam War. His next novel, As Summers Die (1980), received a better response. His book Conversations with the Enemy (1982) follows an American Vietnam War soldier who escapes from a Prisoner of War camp and takes a plane back to the United States only to be arrested 14 years later for desertion. It became a finalist in 1984 for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. In 1986, Forrest Gump was published, but it did not make him a best-selling author until it was adapted into a film with the same name in 1994 with Tom Hanks starring in the title role of Forrest Gump. The movie shot the novel to best-seller status, and it sold 1.7 million copies worldwide. In November 2011, he introduced a history book, Kearny's March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846–1847 and in 2016, El Paso, his first novel in nearly 20 years, was published.
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