William Goldman
William Goldman was an American novelist and screenwriter whose career ran across seven decades and sixteen novels. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 and won again for the adaptation of All the President's Men in 1976, and he adapted his own 1973 novel The Princess Bride for the 1987 film. All three pictures were later added to the National Film Registry. He was also Hollywood's most quoted commentator on itself, the man responsible for the line about nobody knowing anything.
Movies (1)
Books (2)
Where to start with William Goldman
The Princess Bride is the one to read rather than watch first, because the framing device, an abridgement of a book that does not exist, is the joke the film cannot fully carry. Magic shows the other Goldman, a tight and nasty thriller about a ventriloquist. Tales from the Script is a documentary where he talks shop, which is the next best thing to his books about screenwriting.