WINSTON GROOM

FILE – In this Aug. 21, 1995, file photo, Winston Groom, author of “Forrest Gump,” the book on which the film was based, signs copies of “Gump & Co.,” the sequel to “Forrest Gump”, at a New York City bookstore. Groom, the author of the novel “Forrest Gump” that was made into a six-Oscar winning 1994 movie that became a soaring pop culture hit, has died, an Alabama official close to the writer said Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020. He was 77. (AP Photo/Anders Krusberg, File)