Gump & Co.
After the success of his first novel Forrest Gump, Winston Groom wrote a sequel, Gump & Co., with the opening sentence “Don’t never let nobody make a movie of your life’s story.” The reason for this is probably the fact that no one involved with the movie ever acknowledged the author for his novel on which the movie was based. No one thanked him privately, neither, Groom was hugely overlooked.
Not the Big Hit
When the first edition of ‘Forrest Gump’ was published in 1986 it wasn’t an instant hit. Only 30,000 copies were sold. However, it was film producer Wendy Finerman who saw the great potential of this novel and succeeded in making it into a movie. After the success of the movie, 1.6 million books were sold and the book became classic.
