wrote novel forrest gump
His next book, Conversations with the Enemy which was published in 1982, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983(Encyclopedia). Winston Groom moved back down south to Mobile, Alabama in 1985 and got to work on his best known novel, Forrest Gump. Winston Groom didnât become a best-selling author until about eight years later when the novel was made into a film.