Question: The Color of Light is a novel by William Goldman, an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter, and was published in which year?

Context articles: Harper (film)
Adventures in the Screen Trade
Which Lie Did I Tell?
The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway
The Color of Light
James Goldman
Marathon Man (novel)
The Princess Bride
William Goldman
The Temple of Gold

Harper (released in the UK as The Moving Target) is a 1966 Technicolor film based on Ross Macdonald's novel "The Moving Target" in Panavision and adapted for the screen by novelist William Goldman, who admired MacDonald's writings.
 The film stars Paul Newman as the eponymous Lew Harper (Lew Archer in the novel).
 It is directed by Jack Smight, with an ensemble cast that includes Robert Wagner, Julie Harris, Janet Leigh, Shelley Winters and Arthur Hill.
Adventures in the Screen Trade is a book about Hollywood written in 1983 by American novelist and screenwriter William Goldman.
 The title is a parody of Dylan Thomas's "Adventures in the Skin Trade".
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 William Goldman.
 It is the follow-up to his 1982 book "Adventures in the Screen Trade".
The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway is an account of the 1967-68 season on and off Broadway by American novelist and screenwriter William Goldman.
 It was originally published in 1969 and is considered one of the best books ever written on American theater.
 In "The New York Times", Christopher Lehmann-Haupt called the book “Very nearly perfect.
 ... It is a loose-limbed, gossipy, insider, savvy, nuts-and-bolts report on the annual search for the winning numbers that is now big-time American commercial theatre.”
The Color of Light is a novel by William Goldman, published in 1984.
 It is about the life of writer Charles 'Chub' Fuller, who while attending Oberlin College from 1968 to 1972 channels his childhood experiences as the only child of an alcoholic, suicidal father and a moody, impossible-to-please mother into a series of short stories, shared only with his friend and foil Stanley 'Two-Brew' Kitchel.
James Goldman (June 30, 1927 – October 28, 1998) was an American screenwriter and playwright, and the brother of screenwriter and novelist William Goldman.
Marathon Man is a 1974 conspiracy thriller novel by William Goldman.
 It was Goldman's most successful thriller novel, and his second suspense novel.
The Princess Bride is a 1973 fantasy romance novel written by William Goldman.
 The book combines elements of comedy, adventure, fantasy, romantic love, romance, and fairy tale.
 It is presented as an abridgment (or "the good parts version") of a longer work by S. Morgenstern, and Goldman's "commentary" asides are constant throughout.
 It was originally published in the United States by Harcourt Brace, then later by Random House, while in the United Kingdom, it was later published by Bloomsbury.
William Goldman (born August 12, 1931) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter.
 He came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist, before turning to writing for film.
 He has won two Academy Awards for his screenplays, first for the western "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969) and again for "All the President's Men" (1976), about journalists who broke the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon.
 Both films starred Robert Redford.
The Temple of Gold is a 1957 novel by William Goldman.
 It was Goldman's first novel, and launched his career.