Information AboutWilliam Goldman |
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William Goldman (born August 12 , 1931 ) is an America n Novelist , Playwright and two-time Academy Award -winning Screenwriter . BIOGRAPHY 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 is the brother of playwright James Goldman , though the two had been Estranged for many years before James's death in 1998. William Goldman had published five novels and had three plays produced on Broadway before he wrote screenplays, including several based on his novels. In the 1980s he wrote a series of memoirs looking at his professional life on Broadway and in Hollywood (in one of these he remarked that in Hollywood "Nobody knows anything"), and wrote more novels. Adapting his novel '' The Princess Bride '' to the screen marked his re-entry into screenwriting. He is often called in as an uncredited Script Doctor on troubled projects. Simon Morgenstern is a Pseudonym , a narrative device invented by him to add another layer to ''The Princess Bride''. Goldman claims S. Morgenstern is the original Florinese author of ''The Princess Bride '' and credits himself merely as an abridger who is bringing the classic to an American audience. Goldman also wrote '' The Silent Gondoliers '' under Morgenstern's name. Goldman has won two for '' Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid '' and an Academy Award For Writing Adapted Screenplay for '' All The President's Men ''. He was married to Ilene Jones until their divorce in 1991. Contrary to his fictionalized biography in ''The Princess Bride'', he has two daughters and no sons. CREDITS Broadway
Screenplays
Television
Novels
Non-fiction and memoirs
Children's books
Other
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