William Goldman (1931–2018)
Autor de La princesa prometida
Sobre El Autor
William Goldman was born in Highland Park, Illinois on August 12, 1931. He received a bachelor's degree in English from Oberlin College and a master's degree from Columbia University. He began his writing career in 1957 and wrote his first screenplay Masquerade in 1965. During his lifetime, he mostrar más wrote more than 20 screenplays and over 20 novels. He wrote the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Misery, A Bridge Too Far, The Stepford Wives, and Chaplin. He adapted three screenplays from his own novels including The Princess Bride, Marathon Man, and Heat. His other novels included The Temple of Gold, No Way to Treat a Lady, Adventures in the Screen Trade, Hype and Glory, and Which Lie Did I Tell. He sometimes wrote under pseudonyms during his career including S. Morgenstern and Harry Langlaugh. He won three Lifetime Achievement Awards for Screenwriting, including the 1985 Laurel Award for Lifetime Achievement in Screenwriter. He won two Screenwriter of the Year Awards and two Academy Awards, one for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and the other for All the President's Men. He also won an English Academy Award. He died from colon cancer and pneumonia on November 16, 2018 at the age of 87. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de William Goldman
The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure (2013) — Autor — 670 copias, 13 reseñas
Todos los hombres del presidente = All the president's men (1976) — Screenwriter — 259 copias, 5 reseñas
Wait Till Next Year: The Story of a Season When What Should've Happened Didn't, and What Could've Gone… (1988) 35 copias, 1 reseña
The novels of William Goldman : boys and girls together, marathon man, and the temple of gold. (2017) 5 copias
The Princess Bride Screenplay 3 copias
The Stepford Wives: The Screenplay 2 copias
Boys & Girl's Together 1 copia
True Love and High Adventure 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Widescreen Special Edition) (1969) — Screenwriter — 392 copias, 4 reseñas
Swords and Sorcerers: Stories from the Worlds of Fantasy and Adventure (2002) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
The Princess Bride Booklet (Criterion Collection) — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Goldman, William Weil
- Otros nombres
- MORGENSTERN, Simon (pseudonym)
LONGBAUGH, Harry (pseudonym)
GOLDMAN, William W.
GOLDMAN, William - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1931-08-12
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2018-11-16
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- cancer (colon)
- Lugares de residencia
- New York, New York, USA
Highland Park, Illinois. USA - Educación
- Oberlin College (BA|1952 - English)
Columbia University (MA|1956) - Ocupaciones
- playwright
novelist
screenwriter - Relaciones
- Goldman, James (brother)
- Organizaciones
- Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences
Mystery Writers of America
US Army - Premios y honores
- Academy Award for Best Screenplay (1969)
Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (1976)
Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement (1985)
Edgar Award (1967 and 1979)
Miembros
Debates
Joe's Book Cafe 2016 Door 18 en 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (agosto 2016)
A particular paperback edition of "Princess Bride" en Name that Book (julio 2015)
Princess Bride question en Children's Fiction (Febrero 2011)
Reseñas
Listas
Movies/Shows (1)
Five star books (1)
Best Young Adult (1)
Best Spy Fiction (1)
um actually (1)
Folio Society (1)
Unread books (1)
Best First Lines (1)
Metafiction (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Fiction For Men (1)
1970s Thrillers (1)
Best Satire (1)
READ IN 2021 (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
1970s (1)
Princess Tales (1)
Backlisted (1)
Page Turners (1)
Wishlist (1)
Pageturners (1)
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 57
- También por
- 17
- Miembros
- 34,680
- Popularidad
- #544
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 664
- ISBNs
- 342
- Idiomas
- 19
- Favorito
- 45
El mejor esgrimista, el hombre más inteligente y el más fuerte del mundo son contratados por los enemigos de Florin para raptar a Buttercup. En la huida, sufren la incansable persecución de un hombre enmascarado que los retará uno a uno en su propio terreno. En La Princesa Prometida, William Goldman ha reunido todos los elementos clásicos de los grandes relatos, ambientados en un mundo de fantasía medieval, imprimiéndoles su fino sentido del humor. Sus personajes representan a todos los héroes y villanos de nuestros cuentos de infancia y rinden un brillante homenaje a la novela de aventuras.… (más)