William Goldman





William Goldman

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

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Irwin Shaw, Ingmar Bergman, Ross Macdonald


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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.
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 screenwriting.
Goldman has won two Academy Awards: an Academy Award for W...more


Average rating: 4.19 · 240,985 ratings · 6,842 reviews · 31 distinct works
The Princess Bride
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 233,565 ratings — published 1973 — 74 editions
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Marathon Man
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2,433 ratings — published 1974 — 14 editions
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Adventures in the Screen Trade
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 1,175 ratings — published 1983 — 12 editions
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Which Lie Did I Tell?: More...
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 693 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
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The Silent Gondoliers
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 588 ratings — published 1983 — 5 editions
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Magic
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 405 ratings — published 1976 — 9 editions
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Boys and Girls Together
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 293 ratings — published 1964 — 10 editions
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The Temple of Gold
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 1976 — 3 editions
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The Colour of Light
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 183 ratings5 editions
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Brothers
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions
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“Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.”
William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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William Goldman, The Princess Bride

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