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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 · 991,370 ratings · 32,987 reviews · 89 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Princess Bride 4.27 avg rating — 946,838 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 — 21,679 ratings — published 1974 — 15 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 4.13 avg rating — 8,394 ratings — published 1983 — 2 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
	Which Lie Did I Tell?: More Adventures in the Screen Trade 4.03 avg rating — 2,816 ratings — published 2000 — 21 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 — 2,120 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 — 1,886 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 — 1,230 ratings — published 1957 — 21 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
	Boys and Girls Together 3.68 avg rating — 1,043 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 — 550 ratings — published 1968 — 15 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 — 564 ratings — published 1984 — 15 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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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pages, 1951

66 votes, 19.5%

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64 votes, 18.9%

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46 votes, 13.6%

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 212 pages, 1962

37 votes, 10.9%

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, 608 pages, 1838

29 votes, 8.6%

The Princess Bride by William Goldman, 298 pages, 1973

29 votes, 8.6%

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, 192 pages, 1897

24 votes, 7.1%

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages, 1882

21 votes, 6.2%

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13 votes, 3.8%

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9 votes, 2.7%

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