Forrest Gump is a 1986 novel by Winston Groom. The title character retells adventures ranging from shrimp boating and ping pong championships, to thinking about his childhood love, as he bumbles his w

Winston Francis Groom Jr. was an American author. He is best known for his best-selling novel Forrest Gump, which became a 1990s cultural phenomenon after being adapted as the film of the same name di