He grew higher within the Jewish family in Highland Park, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, and found the BA degree at Oberlin College in 1952 and an MA degree at Columbia University in 1956. He got published 5 novels & got leash plays produced in Broadway before writing screenplays, including several according to his novels. around the Eighties he wrote the series of memoirs seeking at his business life witharound Broadway & in Hollywood (in one of these he remarked that in Hollywood "Nobody knows anything"), & wrote supplementary novels. Adapting his novel The Princess Bride to the screen marked his re-entry into screenwriting. He is typically known as inside as an uncredited script doctor in disruptive projects.

Simon Morgenstern occurs as pseudonym, a narrative device invented by him to add an additional layer to The Princess Bride. Goldman claims S. Morgenstern is the original Florinese creator of The Princess Bride & credits himself but as an abbreviator world health organization is bringing a classic to an Our contries audience. Goldman as well wrote The Silent Gondoliers under Morgenstern's name.

Goldman has won 2 Academy Awards: an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for ''All the President's Men.

He was married to Ilene Jones until their divorcement around 1991. Contrary to his fictionalized life in The Princess Bride, he has 2 girl & there is no sons.

Credits
Broadway
Blood, Sweat, and Stanley Poole (with James Goldman) A Family Affair - 1962 (lyrics; book was by James Goldman, music by John Kander) The Princess Bride (with Adam Guettel) currently writing.

Screenplays
Masquerade (with Michael Relph) - 1965 Harper - 1966 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - 1969: Academy Award The Hot Rock - 1972 The Stepford Wives - 1975 The Great Waldo Pepper - 1975 Marathon Man - 1976 All the President's Men - 1976: Academy Award A Bridge Too Far - 1977 Magic - 1978 Heat - 1987 The Princess Bride - 1987 Misery - 1990 Memoirs of an Invisible Man - 1992 Year of the Comet - 1992 Chaplin - 1992 Maverick - 1994 The Chamber - 1996 The Ghost and the Darkness - 1996 Fierce Creatures - 1997 (uncredited) Absolute Power - 1997 The General's Daughter - 1999 Hearts in Atlantis - 2001 Dreamcatcher - 2003

Television
Mr. Horn - 1979

Novels
The Temple of Gold - 1957 The Turn to Curtsy, The Turn to Bow - 1958 Soldier in the Rain - 1960 Boys & Girls Together - 1964 No Way to Treat a Lady - 1964 A Tool of These are... - 1967 Father's Day - 1971 The Princess Bride - 1973 Marathon Man - 1974 Magic: A Novel - 1976 Tinsel: A Novel - 1979 Control - 1982 The Silent Gondoliers - 1983 The Color of Light - 1984 Heat - 1985 Brothers - 1986 William Goldman's Boys & Girls Together

Non-Fiction & Memoirs
The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway - 1969 The Story of 'A Bridge Too Far' - 1977 Adventures in Screenwriting Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Home See of Hollywood & Screenwriting - 1983 Hold off Till Next Month (by owning Microphone Lupica) -1988 Which Lie Did I Tell? (More Escapade in the Screen Trade) - 2000 Hype and Glory - 1990 4 Screenplays (1995) Marathon Human, Butch Cassidy & a Sundance Child, A Princess Bride, & Misery, by having an essay in each 5 Screenplays (1997) All the President's Men, Magic, Harpist, Maverick, & A Wonderful Waldo Pepper, by owning an essay in each A Large Picture: World health organization Flushed Hollywood? & More Essays'' (2001)

Children's books
Wigger (1974)

Other
Up to date Globe Writing Total Xvii (1960) The collection of stories, verse form & articles by many authors, sustaining an 11-website story entitled "Da Vinci" by Goldman A Craft of the Film writer by John Brady (1981) Includes the profile in Goldman & the prolonged locate all about his craft A Motion picture Business Book by James E. Squire (Editor) (1992) Includes an Equally Told By William Goldman piece Writers in Directors by Susan Gray (1999) Goldman has the piece in Rob Reiner in that book, & a second in Norman Jewison ''A Number one Period I personally Had Invite It: Writers' Tales From either a Hollywood Trenches'' (2000) Introduction by Goldman Goldman speaks frankly all about his writing run within American Film Foundation's series Screenwriters: Words into Motion.