This is the first novel in Forrest Gump series. Set in the mid-summer of 1846, the desires for expansionism and adventures led to Texas Annexation from Mexico. Kearny match with the expansionists interests of the United States President James K. The novel describes how the desires for the westward adventure of Brigadier Stephen W. Kearny’s March: The Epic Creation of the American West, 1846-1847 was published in November 2011. The author devotes his time to writing history books regarding American wars. The film aided the novel to become a bestseller which sold over 1.7 million copies globally. The novel did not at first make him a bestseller until it was adapted into 1994 movies by the same name featuring Tom Hank as the lead character. Winston Groom moved back to Mobile, Alabama in 1985 where he began writing Forrest Gump which was published in 1986. The novel was finalist during the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. Conversations with the Enemy (1982) narrates the story of American Prisoner of War soldier who escapes after being held a prisoner in Vietnam and heads back home only to be arrested 14 years later for desertion. His second novel As Summers Die (1980) received a much better recognition than the first one. The novel is about a rifle company during the Vietnam War whom patriotism and live are shattered. Winston Groom debut novel is Better Times Than These published in 1978. After returning home from Vietnam, Winston worked for the Washington Star as a reporter covering the federal court system and justice department but later resigned to pursue his writing career.

He served in the military from 1965-1969, and most of his service in the army was with the Fourth Infantry Division though he went on a tour of duty during the Vietnam War. He joined the University of Alabama where he became a member of the Army ROTC and Delta Tau Delta and graduated in 1965. Groom dreams were to become a lawyer just like his father was but instead chose to take writing career while working as a literary editor in college. and spent his childhood in Mobile County, Alabama where he later joined University Military School. He was popularly known for his novel Forrest Gump. Winston Groom was American nonfiction writer and a novelist born 23rd March 1943 and died September 17, 2020.

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