Paul’s legs are broken in every which way, and he’s confined to Annie’s guest bedroom. When he regains consciousness, he discovers he is in the care of Annie Wilkes, a nurse who lives in a secluded cabin and just so happens to be Paul’s number one fan. Misery isn’t a beast of a novel-my copy clocked in at 350 pages-but it still packs a wallop.Īuthor Paul Sheldon awakens in a daze after crashing his car in the Colorado mountain roads. King didn’t disappoint, laying out a personal and harrowing tale of a writer trapped by his number one fan. This October, I read Misery alongside a friend to entrench myself in spooky season. Goldman won two Academy Awards: an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and an Academy Award for writing the adapted screenplay for All the President's Men.It’s been a while since my last outing into the Stephen King universe. Goldman also wrote "The Silent Gondoliers" under Morgenstern's name. Morgenstern is the original Florinese author of "The Princess Bride" and credits himself merely as an abridger who is bringing the classic to an American audience. Simon Morgenstern was a pseudonym and a narrative device invented by him to add another layer to "The Princess Bride." Goldman claims S. He was often called in as an unaccredited script doctor on troubled projects. Adapting his novel "The Princess Bride" to the screen marked his re-entry into screenwriting. In the 1980s he wrote a series of memoirs looking at his professional life on Broadway and in Hollywood (in one of these he remarked that in Hollywood "Nobody knows anything"), and wrote more novels. He had published five novels and had three plays produced on Broadway before going to Hollywood to write screenplays, including several based on his novels.
He grew up in Highland Park, Illinois and obtained a BA degree at Oberlin College in 1952 and an MA degree at Columbia University in 1956. William Goldman (playwright) William Goldman (AugNovember 16, 2018) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright.
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