William Goldman (1931–2018)
Autor/a de The Princess Bride
Sobre l'autor
William Goldman was born in Highland Park, Illinois on August 12, 1931. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Oberlin College and a master's degree from Columbia University. He began his writing career in 1957 and wrote his first screenplay Masquerade in 1965. During his lifetime, he mostra'n més wrote more than 20 screenplays and over 20 novels. He wrote the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Misery, A Bridge Too Far, The Stepford Wives, and Chaplin. He adapted three screenplays from his own novels including The Princess Bride, Marathon Man, and Heat. His other novels included The Temple of Gold, No Way to Treat a Lady, Adventures in the Screen Trade, Hype and Glory, and Which Lie Did I Tell. He sometimes wrote under pseudonyms during his career including S. Morgenstern and Harry Langlaugh. He won three Lifetime Achievement Awards for Screenwriting, including the 1985 Laurel Award for Lifetime Achievement in Screenwriter. He won two Screenwriter of the Year Awards and two Academy Awards, one for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the other for All the President's Men. He also won an English Academy Award. He died from colon cancer and pneumonia on November 16, 2018 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Sèrie
Obres de William Goldman
The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure (2013) — Autor — 631 exemplars
Wait Till Next Year: The Story of a Season When What Should've Happened Didn't, and What Could've Gone… (1988) 34 exemplars
The novels of William Goldman : boys and girls together, marathon man, and the temple of gold. (2017) 5 exemplars
All the President's Men: The Screenplay 4 exemplars
The Princess Bride Screenplay 3 exemplars
The Stepford Wives: The Screenplay 2 exemplars
Misery: Based on the Novel by Stephen King 2 exemplars
Aventures d'un scénariste à Hollywood 1 exemplars
The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1 exemplars
Duel Scene [from the Princess Bride] 1 exemplars
True Love and High Adventure 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Swords and Sorcerers: Stories from the Worlds of Fantasy and Adventure (2002) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
The Princess Bride Booklet (Criterion Collection 948) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Goldman, William Weil
- Altres noms
- MORGENSTERN, Simon (pseudonym)
LONGBAUGH, Harry (pseudonym)
GOLDMAN, William W.
GOLDMAN, William - Data de naixement
- 1931-08-12
- Data de defunció
- 2018-11-16
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de la mort
- cancer (colon)
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
Highland Park, Illinois. USA - Educació
- Oberlin College (BA|1952 - English)
Columbia University (MA|1956) - Professions
- playwright
novelist
screenwriter - Relacions
- Goldman, James (brother)
- Organitzacions
- Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Mystery Writers of America
US Army - Premis i honors
- Academy Award for Best Screenplay (1969)
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (1976)
Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (1985)
Edgar Award (1967 and 1979)
Membres
Converses
Joe's Book Cafe 2016 Door 18 a 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (agost 2016)
A particular paperback edition of "Princess Bride" a Name that Book (juliol 2015)
Princess Bride question a Children's Fiction (febrer 2011)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Five star books (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Best Young Adult (1)
Best Spy Fiction (1)
um actually (1)
Unread books (1)
Folio Society (1)
Metafiction (1)
Best First Lines (1)
1970s Thrillers (1)
Fiction For Men (1)
Princess Tales (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
1970s (1)
READ IN 2021 (1)
Backlisted (1)
Best Satire (1)
Page Turners (1)
Wishlist (1)
Pageturners (1)
Premis
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 52
- També de
- 19
- Membres
- 33,594
- Popularitat
- #575
- Valoració
- 4.2
- Ressenyes
- 655
- ISBN
- 325
- Llengües
- 17
- Preferit
- 45