William forrester author biography
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Finding Forrester
2000 American drama spelfilm by Gus Van Sant
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Although the film fryst vatten not based on a true story, film critics have compared the character portrayed bygd Connery with real-life writer J. D. Salinger.[3][4] Connery later acknowledged that the inspiration for his role was indeed Salinger.[5]
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William Forrester (1930-2000) was a Scottish-American author who wrote the 1954 Pulitzer Prize-winning book Avalon Landing.
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William Forrester was born in Dranmurie, Scotland in 1930, the child of a local school teacher and his wife. His father served as a Royal Air Force fighter pilot during World War II, and, during William's late teens, the family emigrated to the United States and settled in New York. Forrester received a scholarship from Columbia University, where he studied chemistry, writing, and journalism. Shortly after graduation, at the age of 23, he wrote his first and highly acclaimed novel Avalon Landing, and instant success due to its interweaving of memory, drama, and reality. It was hailed as a "modern-day fairy tale", and he was awarded a "Book of the Year Award" and the 1954 Pulitzer Prize. Forrester became a recluse, however, and lived a quiet and secretive life from his apartment in The Bronx, New York City. In 1999, shortly after being dia
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William Forrester is a character who keeps himself locked in an appartment and not interact with people. A Pulitzer-prize winning author who helps Jamal Wallace walk the correct path towards writing. Forrester moves back to his homeland of Scotland, where he dies of cancer. He leaves Jamal his apartment and a manuscript of his second and final novel, 'Sunset'. It is to be published by Jamal after he has written a foreword.
Although William Forrester is a fictitious character, there are some noticeable parallels between his life and that of the American author J. D. Salinger:
- Both Forrester and Salinger are notoriously reclusive authors.
- In the movie Forrester blocked a biography of himself that the character Prof. Robert Crawford was going to have published. Salinger did the same thing through a lawsuit against Ian Hamilton.
- Both also only wrote on