Forrest Gump

Winston Groom is a renowned Southern novelist. Groom’s Southerness permeates in all of his fiction and non-fiction books. All the characters that he creates speak with Southern voices, and the life in his works moves in line with a distinctive Southern timeline. By moving in line with tradition of other Southern writers such as Carson McCullers, William Faulkner and Pat Conroy, Winston Groom fills his books with quirky characters who pay homage to the modern day South and the Southern history within a single breath. While the South and its cultures is evident in Groom’s novels, his nonfiction works also feature the Southern roots. Despite the fact that Winston Groom was born in Washington, DC he was raised in the town of Mobile, Alabama that is located in the Gulf Coast.