That genre-benchmark was ' Marathon Man'-and its still as great as it ever was-though the numbers of readers who wend their way to it have of course, dwindled. The earlier book redefined the thriller genre was adapted into a fine movie (by the author himself, thankfully) with the most famous leading-men of the day acting in it and even now it remains a book to which any new thriller must be compared to. He was eighty-seven years old.įew thriller-fans today may have ever read the original book which William Goldman wrote in the early 70s -from which, this much-later work I'm now going to describe to you-is the sequel.

Goldman died in New York City on November 16, 2018, due to complications from colon cancer and pneumonia. He also won two Edgar Awards, from the Mystery Writers of America, for Best Motion Picture Screenplay: for Harper in 1967, and for Magic (adapted from his own 1976 novel) in 1979. Goldman won two Academy Awards: an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for All the President's Men. He then adapted his novel The Princess Bride to the screen, which marked his re-entry into screenwriting.

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'). Several of his novels he later used as the foundation for his screenplays. William Goldman had published five novels and had three plays produced on Broadway before he began to write screenplays. Urn:oclc:873297464 Republisher_date 20120420002930 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120417182243 Scanner 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.

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