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William Goldman

Born

in Highland Park, Illinois, The United States

August 12, 1931

Died

November 16, 2018

Website

http://www.openroadmedia.com/william-goldman

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, Screenplays & Plays

Influences

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

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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.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 · 999,877 ratings · 34,026 reviews · 93 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Princess Bride 4.27 avg rating — 954,289 ratings — published 1973 — 225 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Marathon Man 4.11 avg rating — 21,808 ratings — published 1974 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting 4.12 avg rating — 8,502 ratings — published 1983	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade 4.03 avg rating — 2,844 ratings — published 2000 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magic 3.70 avg rating — 2,140 ratings — published 1976 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silent Gondoliers 3.86 avg rating — 1,891 ratings — published 1983 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Temple of Gold 3.83 avg rating — 1,238 ratings — published 1957	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boys and Girls Together 3.68 avg rating — 1,047 ratings — published 1964 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Screenplay 4.29 avg rating — 553 ratings — published 1968 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Colour of Light 3.87 avg rating — 565 ratings — published 1984 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë pub. 1848, 576 pages, last read Dec 2018

39 votes, 22.0%

The Princess Bride by William Goldman pub. 1973, 456 pp., last read June 2019

25 votes, 14.1%

Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier pub. 1935, pp. 302, last read April 2013

25 votes, 14.1%

Ivanhoe by Walter Scott pub. 1819, 496 pp. last read Jan 2017

20 votes, 11.3%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett pub. 1952, 109 pp., last read June 2018

20 votes, 11.3%

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin pub. 1833 pp. 240, last read March 2019

17 votes, 9.6%

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy pub. 1905, pp. 182, last read March 2015

16 votes, 9.0%

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence pub. 1923, 376 pp., last read Feb. 2017

15 votes, 8.5%

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