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William Goldman

April 2020

  • A woman sitting in front of a typewriter

    From Stephen King to Anne Lamott: the 10 most inspiring, enjoyable books about how to write

    These are brilliant guides to creativity, commitment and structure – whether you intend to write yourself, or just love great writing

September 2019

  • Cary Elwes and Robin Wright in The Princess Bride

    Inconceivable! Rumour of The Princess Bride remake sends fans into pit of despair

    Cary Elwes sums up reaction: ‘There’s a shortage of perfect movies in this world. It would be a pity to damage this one’

June 2019

  • The author Harlan Coben, at home in Ridgewood, N.J., Feb. 14, 2019.

    Books that made me
    Harlan Coben: 'I cry a lot when I write – I need to cry more when I’m reading'

    The thriller author on the book that explains why writers are ‘plain nuts’, and the William Goldman novel that started him on his career path

February 2019

  • On the set of The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman, in 1967

    Further reading
    Stars, sex and scandal: Peter Bradshaw on the best books about Hollywood

    Ahead of the Oscars, the Guardian’s film critic shares his favourite books on the dream factory, including David Niven, Zadie Smith and Rose McGowan

November 2018

  • William Goldman on Broadway<br>(Original Caption) New York: Telling The Broadway Story Like It Is. Author William Goldman has produced his first work of nonfiction, The Season, which candidly discusses the Broadway theater. The book touches everything from the critics to homosexuality.

    Letter: William Goldman obituary

    Quentin Falk writes: In the 1980s I had the great pleasure of interviewing William Goldman for a Guardian series at the NFT
  • Awakening moment ... All the President’s Men, which earned an Oscar for Goldman, who died last week.

    The Crown writer Peter Morgan on William Goldman: 'He was just a sublime storyteller'

    The screenwriting legend behind All the President’s Men was an inspiration – and later a friend – to the creator of Frost/Nixon and The Crown. He recalls sitting through screenings and ‘shooting the breeze’ with a phenomenal talent

    • William Goldman obituary

    • William Goldman, Butch Cassidy and Princess Bride screenwriter – a life in pictures

    • Butch Cassidy and Princess Bride scriptwriter William Goldman dies aged 87

March 2015

  • Cary Elwes and Robin Wright in The Princess Bride.

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 24 March 1988: The Princess Bride - review

    Originally published in the Guardian on 24 March 1988: Heroes, giants, villains, wizards, true love - Derek Malcolm on the adaptation of William Goldman’s half-serious fairytale

November 2013

  • The Princess Bride

    The Princess Bride to become Disney stage production

    Disney is developing a stage version of The Princess Bride in collaboration with its writer, William Goldman

October 2010

  • The Princess Bride

    The 25 best sci-fi and fantasy films of all time
    The Princess Bride: No 23 best sci-fi and fantasy film of all time

    Rob Reiner, 1987

November 2009

  • William Goldman

    Robert McCrum on books
    No one knows anything, and other dilemmas of the e-book era

    Robert McCrum: It's even harder to adapt to the digital gale sweeping through publishing when big 'old-media' stories about canonical authors are still grabbing everyone's attention

April 2009

  • William Goldman with Moonstruck director Norman Jewison in 2007

    Newman, Hoffman, Redford and me

    He wrote Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid but maintains that 'nobody knows anything' about movies, not least him. 'I was programmed to fail,' screenwriting legend William Goldman confesses to Joe Queenan

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