This article is about the screenwriter/novelist. For the mathematician, see William Goldman (professor). William Goldman (born 1955 is a professor of Mathematics at the University of Maryland College Park (since 1986

William Goldman (born August 12, 1931) is an American novelist, playwright and two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Screenwriters or scenarists are Scriptwriters who write the Screenplays from which Films and Television programs are made He lives in New York City.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Autobiographical fiction 2 Career 3 Miscellanea 4 Credits 4.1 Broadway 4.2 Screenplays (Produced) 4.3 Screenplays (Unproduced) 4.4 Television 4.5 Novels 4.6 Non-fiction and memoirs 4.7 Children's books 4.8 Other 5 References

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. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ Highland Park is a city in the Moraine Township of Lake County, Illinois, United States. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Oberlin College is a private Liberal arts college in Oberlin Ohio. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League.

He had been estranged for many years from his brother, playwright James Goldman, before James's death in 1998. James Goldman ( June 30, 1927 – October 28, 1998) was an American Academy Award -winning Screenwriter and playwright

William Goldman published five novels and had three plays produced on Broadway before he began to write screenplays. Broadway theater, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 39 large professional theaters with 500 seats or more located He later used several of his novels 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 sized up the entertainment industry by concluding: "Nobody knows anything. ") He then adapted his novel The Princess Bride to the screen, which marked his re-entry into screenwriting. The Princess Bride is a 1973 Novel written by William Goldman and presented as if it were an abridgment of a work by S For many years he often has been called in as an uncredited script doctor on troubled Hollywood projects. A script doctor is a skilled Screenwriter called in to assist a Film project by rewriting parts of the Screenplay to improve dialogue pacing and other

Goldman has 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. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. The Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best script not based upon previously published material Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a American Western film that tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy (played by Paul Newman) and The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most prominent Film awards in the United States All the President's Men is a 1976 film based on the 1974 non-fiction book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating He has 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. The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars) named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers based in New York. Harper is a 1966 film written by William Goldman from a novel by Ross Macdonald. Magic is a 1978 film starring Anthony Hopkins and Ann-Margret.

Among the many other popular scripts written by Goldman are The Stepford Wives (1975), Marathon Man (based on his novel) (1976); A Bridge Too Far (1977); Misery (1990); Chaplin (1992); Maverick (1994) and Absolute Power (1997). For the 1975 film see The Stepford Wives (1975 film, for the 2004 remake see The Stepford Wives (2004 film. Marathon Man is a 1974 paranoid thriller novel by William Goldman. A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic War film based on the 1974 book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan, adapted by

He was married to Ilene Jones until their divorce in 1991. The couple had two daughters.

Autobiographical fiction

Simon Morgenstern is both a pseudonym and a narrative device invented by Goldman to add another layer to his novel The Princess Bride. A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) He presents his novel as being an abridged version of a work by the fictional Morgenstern, an author from the equally fictional country of Florin.

The details of Goldman's life given in the introduction and commentary for The Princess Bride are also largely fictional. For instance, he says that his wife is a psychiatrist and that he was inspired to abridge Morgenstern's The Princess Bride for his only child, a son. (The Princess Bride actually originated as a bedtime story for Goldman's two daughters. ) He not only treats Morgenstern and the countries of Florin and Guilder as real, but even claims that his own father was Florinese and had emigrated to America.

At one point in The Princess Bride, Goldman's commentary indicates that he had wanted to add a passage elaborating a scene skipped over by Morgenstern. He explains that his editors would not allow him to take such liberties with the "original" text, and encourages readers to write to his publisher to request a copy of this scene. Both the original publisher and its successor have responded to such requests with letters describing their supposed legal problems with the Morgenstern estate.

In the 25th Anniversary Edition of The Princess Bride, Goldman claimed that he wanted to adapt the sequel written by Morgenstern, Buttercup's Baby, but he was unable to do so because Morgenstern's estate wanted Stephen King to do the abridgment instead. Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American Author, Screenwriter, Musician, Columnist, He also continued the fictional details of his own life, claiming that his psychiatrist wife had divorced him, and his son had grown to have a son of his own.

Goldman also wrote The Silent Gondoliers under the Morgenstern name. The Silent Gondoliers (ISBN 0-345-44263-6 is a 1983 novel written by William Goldman, under the pseudonym of "S

Career

According to Goldman's memoir, Adventures in the Screen Trade, Goldman began writing when he took a creative writing course in college. Adventures in the Screen Trade is a Book about Hollywood written in 1983 by American Novelist and Screenwriter He did not originally intend to become a screenwriter. His main interests were poetry, short stories, and novels.

Miscellanea

• Favorite writers: Irwin Shaw, Ingmar Bergman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ross Macdonald. Irwin Shaw ( February 27 1913 &ndash May 16 1984) was an American playwright screenwriter and novelist who was also a highly regarded short Ernst Ingmar Bergman ( pronounced) (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007 was a nine-time Academy Award -nominated Swedish film, stage Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24 1896 – December 21 1940 was an American writer of Novels and Short stories, whose works are evocative of the

• Has a self-described obsession with height, and always wants to find out how tall actors and other famous people really are, going so far as to go into a pool with Sylvester Stallone to see how tall he was in bare feet.

• Doesn't drive; claims he can't concentrate that long.

• Major fan of the New York Knicks.

• Wrote mostly serious, literary works until death of his first agent when he began writing thrillers starting with Marathon Man. Marathon Man is a 1974 paranoid thriller novel by William Goldman.

• Researched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for eight years and used Harry Longbaugh (a variant spelling of the Sundance Kid's real name) as his pseudonym for No Way to Treat a Lady. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a American Western film that tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy (played by Paul Newman) and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 - c November 1908? sometimes spelled Longbaugh, born in Mont Clare Pennsylvania, also known as The Sundance Kid, No Way to Treat a Lady is a 1968 Comedy thriller directed by Jack Smight, with a screenplay by John Gay adapted from William After deciding he didn't want to write a cowboy novel, he turned the story into his first original screenplay and sold it for a record $400,000.

• Doesn't like “bloodbath action” movies and spoofed them in Last Action Hero. Last Action Hero is a 1993 action comedy Film directed by John McTiernan.

• Turned down The Graduate (“didn't get the book”), The Godfather (loved the book, but didn't want to glamorise the Mafia) and Superman (a big comic fan, but he didn't want to write with a major movie star in the lead, as was the original plan, so they hired Mario Puzo). The Graduate is a American comedy / drama / Romance film directed by Mike Nichols, based on the novel of the same name by The Godfather is a 1972 Crime drama film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed Superman (also known as Superman The Movie) is a 1978 Superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the Mario Gianluigi Puzo ( October 15, 1920 &ndash July 2, 1999) was a two time Academy Award -winning Italian American

• Wrote early/unused scripts for Papillon, The Right Stuff and The Da Vinci Code. The Right Stuff ( is a film adaptation of Tom Wolfe 's book The Right Stuff, about the Test pilots who were involved in high-speed The Da Vinci Code is a controversial mystery / detective Novel by US author Dan Brown, published in 2003 by Doubleday

• His three favorite directors are Elia Kazan, Ingmar Bergman, and George Stevens. Elia Mother, ( Greek: Ηλίας Καζάν September 7 1909 &ndash September 28 2003) was a Greek - American Ernst Ingmar Bergman ( pronounced) (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007 was a nine-time Academy Award -nominated Swedish film, stage George Stevens ( December 18, 1904 - March 8, 1975) was an Academy Award -winning American motion picture

• Worked as uncredited script doctor or consultant on Twins, A Fish Called Wanda, Chaplin, Malice, Last Action Hero and Fierce Creatures

• William Goldman was referred to in Stephen King's 1986 novel It. A script doctor is a skilled Screenwriter called in to assist a Film project by rewriting parts of the Screenplay to improve dialogue pacing and other Twins is a 1988 Comedy film produced and directed by Ivan Reitman about unlikely twins (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito A Fish Called Wanda is a 1988 Comedy film released by MGM. It was written by John Cleese and Charles Crichton and directed Malice is a film written by Aaron Sorkin, Jonas McCord and Scott Frank. Last Action Hero is a 1993 action comedy Film directed by John McTiernan. Fierce Creatures is a 1997 Comedy film. Although not a sequel it was a follow-up to the wildly popular A Fish Called Wanda, Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American Author, Screenwriter, Musician, Columnist, Year 1986 ( MCMLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar) It is a Horror novel by Stephen King, published in 1986 Considered one of King's most visceral and graphic works and his masterpiece alongside In that book he is said to be the only good writer to ever go to Hollywood and remain good. Goldman later wrote the screenplays for King's novels Misery, Hearts in Atlantis, and Dreamcatcher. Misery is a Horror novel by Stephen King, published in 1987. Plot summary Paul Sheldon is the author of a best-selling series Hearts in Atlantis (1999 is a fictional work by Stephen King. This is about the traditional Native American object For other uses see Dreamcatcher (disambiguation.

• Goldman wrote the famous line "Follow the money" for the screenplay of All the President's Men. All the President's Men is a 1976 film based on the 1974 non-fiction book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating Most journalists attribute it to Deep Throat, the informant in the Watergate scandal, but it is not in Bob Woodward’s notes nor in Woodward and Carl Bernstein's book or articles. Deep Throat is the Pseudonym given to the secret source who provided information to the Washington Post about the involvement of U The Watergate scandals were a series of Political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the Indictment of several of Nixon's Robert "Bob" Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post. Carl Bernstein (pronounced BERN-steen ˈbɜrnstiːn (born February 14, 1944) is an American journalist who as a reporter for The ^[1]

• Goldman is often quoted in Hollywood for his dictum about the uncertainties of show business, "Nobody knows anything. "

• Gave the Oberlin College commencement address in May 1985, and said that whenever he is mistaken for William Golding, the late British author and Nobel Prize for Literature winner best known for the novel Lord of the Flies, Goldman smiles and graciously accepts compliments on Golding's writing. Oberlin College is a private Liberal arts college in Oberlin Ohio. Sir William Gerald Golding ( 19 September, 1911 – 19 June, 1993) was a British novelist poet and Nobel Prize for Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur is awarded annually since 1901 to an author from any country who has in the words from the will of Alfred Lord of the Flies is an allegorical Novel by Nobel Prize -winning author William Golding.

• A widespread rumor was that Good Will Hunting was actually written by William Goldman instead of its credited writers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. Good Will Hunting is a 1997 film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, both of whom star in the Matthew Paige Damon (born October 8 1970 is an American Actor and Philanthropist. Ben Affleck (born Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt; August 15 1972 is an American Film Screenwriter, director, actor and older brother of In his book Which Lie Did I Tell? Goldman dismisses this, claiming only to have advised them on their script. Which Lie Did I Tell? More Adventures in the Screen Trade is a work of Non-fiction first published in 2000 by Novelist and Screenwriter

• In the DVD commentary for Fight Club, actor Edward Norton refers to William Goldman as one "ranting and raving about their own obsolescence" in reference to Goldman's criticism of the quality of modern films, particularly those of 1999, the year Fight Club was released. Fight Club is a 1999 American feature film adaptation of the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk, adapted by The year 1999 in film involved some significant events and was arguably the most successful year for films released in the 1990s

Credits

Broadway

• Blood, Sweat, and Stanley Poole (with James Goldman)
• A Family Affair - 1962 (lyrics; book was by James Goldman, music by John Kander)

Screenplays (Produced)

• Masquerade (with Michael Relph) - 1965
• Harper - 1966 (Edgar Award)
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 1969 (Academy Award)
• The Hot Rock - 1972
• The Stepford Wives - 1975
• The Great Waldo Pepper - 1975
• Marathon Man - 1976
• All the President's Men - 1976 (Academy Award)
• A Bridge Too Far - 1977
• Magic - 1978 (Edgar Award)
• Heat - 1987
• The Princess Bride - 1987
• Twins - 1988 (uncredited)
• Misery - 1990
• Memoirs of an Invisible Man - 1992
• Year of the Comet - 1992
• Chaplin - 1992
• Last Action Hero - 1993 (uncredited)
• Maverick - 1994
• The Chamber - 1996
• The Ghost and the Darkness - 1996
• Fierce Creatures - 1997 (uncredited)
• Absolute Power - 1997
• The General's Daughter - 1999
• Hearts in Atlantis - 2001
• Dreamcatcher - 2003
• Mission Impossible 2 - 2003

Screenplays (Unproduced)

• SHAZAM
• Low Fives
• The Sea Kings
• The Thing Of It Is

Television

• Mr. Horn - 1979

Novels

• The Temple of Gold - 1957
• Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow - 1958
• Soldier in the Rain - 1960
• Boys and Girls Together - 1964
• No Way to Treat a Lady - 1964
• The Thing of It Is. James Goldman ( June 30, 1927 – October 28, 1998) was an American Academy Award -winning Screenwriter and playwright A Family Affair is a musical with a book by James Goldman and William Goldman, lyrics by James Goldman and John Kander, and music John Harold Kander (born March 18, 1927 in Kansas City Missouri) is the American Composer Harper is a 1966 film written by William Goldman from a novel by Ross Macdonald. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a American Western film that tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy (played by Paul Newman) and The Hot Rock ( 1972) is a sly comic caper movie directed by Peter Yates, starring Robert Redford, George Segal, and Moses The Stepford Wives is a 1975 science fiction / Horror film based on the 1972 Ira Levin novel of the same name The Great Waldo Pepper is a 1975 Drama film about a discontented pilot played by Robert Redford. Marathon Man is a 1976 thriller film based on the novel of the same name by William Goldman. All the President's Men is a 1976 film based on the 1974 non-fiction book by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two journalists investigating A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic War film based on the 1974 book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan, adapted by Magic is a 1978 film starring Anthony Hopkins and Ann-Margret. Heat is a 1987 crime drama starring Burt Reynolds and adapted by William Goldman from his 1985 novel of the same name (also known The Princess Bride is a 1987 film based on the 1973 novel of the same name by William Goldman, combining Comedy, Twins is a 1988 Comedy film produced and directed by Ivan Reitman about unlikely twins (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito Misery is a 1990 American horror / thriller Film from Columbia Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a 1992 film directed by John Carpenter and released by Warner Bros The Year of the Comet is a 1992 Romantic comedy thriller about the pursuit of the most valuable bottle of wine in history Last Action Hero is a 1993 action comedy Film directed by John McTiernan. Maverick is an Academy Award nominated 1994 Comedy Western movie, based on the 1950s television series Maverick, created The Chamber is a legal/suspense novel by noted American author John Grisham. The Ghost and the Darkness is a 1996 Film about the Tsavo maneaters, two Lions who attacked the builders of the Uganda-Mombasa Railway Fierce Creatures is a 1997 Comedy film. Although not a sequel it was a follow-up to the wildly popular A Fish Called Wanda, Absolute Power is a 1997 political thriller directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. The General's Daughter is a 1999 Film starring John Travolta. Hearts in Atlantis (1999 is a fictional work by Stephen King. Dreamcatcher is a 2003 Film adaptation of Stephen King 's novel of the same name. Mr Horn is a 1979 made for TV movie chronicling the life of Tom Horn. Soldier in the Rain is a 1963 comedy-drama film about the friendship between an aging obese Army Master Sergeant ( Jackie Gleason) and a young country bumpkin No Way to Treat a Lady is a 1968 Comedy thriller directed by Jack Smight, with a screenplay by John Gay adapted from William . . - 1967
• Father's Day - 1971
• The Princess Bride - 1973
• Marathon Man - 1974
• Magic - 1976
• Tinsel - 1979
• Control - 1982
• The Silent Gondoliers - 1983
• The Color of Light - 1984
• Heat - 1985
• Brothers - 1986

Non-fiction and memoirs

• The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway - 1969
• The Story of 'A Bridge Too Far' - 1977
• Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting - 1983
• Wait Till Next Year (with Mike Lupica) -1988
• Hype and Glory - 1990
• Four Screenplays - 1995
  • Marathon Man, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Princess Bride, and Misery, with an essay on each
• Five Screenplays - 1997
  • All the President's Men, Magic, Harper, Maverick, and The Great Waldo Pepper, with an essay on each
• Which Lie Did I Tell? (More Adventures in the Screen Trade) - 2000
• The Big Picture: Who Killed Hollywood? and Other Essays - 2001

Children's books

• Wigger (1974)

Winnie the Pooh (1971)

Other

• New World Writing Number 17 - 1960
  • A collection of stories, poems and articles by several authors, with an 11-page story entitled "Da Vinci" by Goldman
• The Craft of the Screenwriter by John Brady - 1981
  • Includes a profile on Goldman and a lengthy interview about his craft
• The Movie Business Book by James E. Father's Day is a celebration inaugurated in the early twentieth century to complement Mother's Day in celebrating Fatherhood and male Parenting, and The Princess Bride is a 1973 Novel written by William Goldman and presented as if it were an abridgment of a work by S Marathon Man is a 1974 paranoid thriller novel by William Goldman. Magic A Novel is a Psychological horror Novel written by William Goldman. The Silent Gondoliers (ISBN 0-345-44263-6 is a 1983 novel written by William Goldman, under the pseudonym of "S The Color of Light is a novel by William Goldman, published in 1984 Heat is a Novel written by Mike Lupica and published in 2006. Brothers is a thriller Novel by William Goldman. It is the sequel to his 1972 novel Marathon Man. Adventures in the Screen Trade is a Book about Hollywood written in 1983 by American Novelist and Screenwriter Which Lie Did I Tell? More Adventures in the Screen Trade is a work of Non-fiction first published in 2000 by Novelist and Screenwriter Squire (Editor) - 1992
  • Includes an As Told By William Goldman piece
• Writers on Directors by Susan Gray - 1999
  • Goldman has a piece on Rob Reiner in this book, and another on Norman Jewison
• The First Time I Got Paid For It: Writers' Tales From the Hollywood Trenches - 2000
  • Introduction by Goldman
• Goldman speaks candidly about his writing process in American Film Foundation's series Screenwriters: Words into Motion. The American Film Foundation is an award-winning production company based in Southern California.

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