William forrester author biography
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Finding Forrester
2000 American drama film by Gus Van Sant
Finding Forrester is a 2000 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Mike Rich. In the film, a black teenager, Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), is invited to attend a prestigious private high school. By chance, Jamal befriends a reclusive writer, William Forrester (Sean Connery), through whom he refines his talent for writing and comes to terms with his identity. Anna Paquin, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Pitt, Glenn Fitzgerald, April Grace, Busta Rhymes, and Charles Bernstein star in supporting roles.
Although the film is not based on a true story, film critics have compared the character portrayed by Connery with real-life writer J. D. Salinger.[3][4] Connery later acknowledged that the inspiration for his role was indeed Salinger.[5]
Plot
[edit]In the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Jamal Wallace downplays his potential as a gifted student, preferring to play basketball with his friends. They are watched by William Forrester, a recluse who never leaves his apartment and has become a neighborhood urban legend. Dared by his friends, Jamal sneaks into the apartment, but is surprised by Forrester and flees, leaving his backpack behind. Forrester later drops the backpack onto
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Although William Forrester is a fictitious manufacture, there part some strike parallels betwixt his struggle and dump of description American founder J. D. Salinger:
- Both Forrester and Author are notoriously reclusive authors.
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William Forrester (1930-2000) was a Scottish-American author who wrote the 1954 Pulitzer Prize-winning book Avalon Landing.
Biography[]
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 diagnosed with cancer, he tutored the 16-year-old African-American prodigal youth Jamal Wallace and helped him become a better writer while Wallace attended the elite Mailor-Callow prep school. Forrester found a rare friend in Wallace, who took him out to a Madison Square Garden basketball game, only f