Winston Groom, the American novelist and author of “Forrest Gump,” has died. Karin Wilson, mayor of his hometown of Fairhope, Alabama, told CNN that Groom’s family shared the news of the death with ...

Winston Groom, the writer whose novel “Forrest Gump” was made into a 1994 movie that won six Oscars and became a soaring pop cultural phenomenon, has died at his home in Fairhope, Ala. He was 77.

Winston Groom, a Vietnam veteran and onetime newspaper reporter who found fame as the author of “Forrest Gump,” the novel that was the basis of the blockbuster film starring Tom Hanks as a lovable ...