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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 · 949,743 ratings · 29,104 reviews · 74 distinct works • Similar authors
The Princess Bride
4.27 avg rating — 907,077 ratings — published 1973 — 235 editions
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Marathon Man
4.11 avg rating — 21,110 ratings — published 1974 — 90 editions
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Adventures in the Screen Tr...
4.12 avg rating — 7,728 ratings — published 1983 — 37 editions
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Which Lie Did I Tell?: More...
4.02 avg rating — 2,689 ratings — published 2000 — 20 editions
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Magic
3.69 avg rating — 1,956 ratings — published 1976 — 11 editions
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The Silent Gondoliers
3.85 avg rating — 1,811 ratings — published 1983 — 22 editions
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The Temple of Gold: A Novel
3.83 avg rating — 1,173 ratings — published 1957 — 34 editions
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Boys and Girls Together
3.68 avg rating — 1,028 ratings — published 1964 — 28 editions
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Butch Cassidy and the Sunda...
4.28 avg rating — 529 ratings — published 1968 — 14 editions
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The Colour of Light
3.85 avg rating — 553 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions
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“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
― William Goldman, William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays
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.”
― William Goldman, The Princess Bride
tags: life
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