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William Goldman


Born
in Highland Park, Illinois, The United States
August 12, 1931

Died
November 16, 2018

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Screenplays & Plays

Influences
Irwin Shaw, Ingmar Bergman, Ross Macdonald, Ira Levin, Stephen King ...more


Goldman grew up in a Jewish family in Highland Park, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, and obtained a BA degree at Oberlin College in 1952 and an MA degree at Columbia University in 1956.His brother was the late James Goldman, author and playwright.

William Goldman had published five novels and had three plays produced on Broadway before he began to write screenplays. Several of his novels he later used as the foundation for his screenplays.

In the 1980s he wrote a series of memoirs looking at his professional life on Broadway and in Hollywood (in one of these he famously remarked that "Nobody knows anything"). He then returned to writing novels. He then adapted his novel The Princess Bride to the screen, which marked his re-entry into screenwriti ...more

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Average rating: 4.26 · 1,000,070 ratings · 34,062 reviews · 93 distinct works • Similar authors
The Princess Bride
4.27 avg rating — 954,469 ratings — published 1973 — 226 editions
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Marathon Man
4.11 avg rating — 21,809 ratings — published 1974 — 91 editions
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Adventures in the Screen Tr...
4.12 avg rating — 8,504 ratings — published 1983 — 42 editions
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Which Lie Did I Tell?: More...
4.03 avg rating — 2,845 ratings — published 2000 — 22 editions
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Magic
3.70 avg rating — 2,141 ratings — published 1976 — 35 editions
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The Silent Gondoliers
3.86 avg rating — 1,891 ratings — published 1983 — 13 editions
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The Temple of Gold
3.83 avg rating — 1,238 ratings — published 1957 — 21 editions
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Boys and Girls Together
3.68 avg rating — 1,047 ratings — published 1964 — 27 editions
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Butch Cassidy and the Sunda...
4.29 avg rating — 553 ratings — published 1968 — 17 editions
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The Colour of Light
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“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery
tags: life, pain
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“When I was your age, television was called books.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
tags: book, fantasy, humour
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“Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.”
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June 2019 Revisit the Shelf

The Princess Bride by William Goldman, 1973, 398 pages, Group read: 2015
 
  62 votes, 20.7%

Middlemarch by George Eliot, 1871, 904 pages, Group read: 2016
 
  58 votes, 19.4%

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 1929, 326 pages, Group read: 2011
 
  57 votes, 19.1%

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 1962, 192 pages, Group read: 2012, 2014
 
  51 votes, 17.1%

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, 1814, 507 pages, Group read: 2012
 
  47 votes, 15.7%

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace, 1880, 620 pages, Group read: 2012
 
  24 votes, 8.0%

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