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AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR (AND CRIMSON TIDE FAN) WINSTON GROOM

By Ted Bauer

Friday, August 22, 2008

[Ed's note: Check out our interview with another Alabama fan, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, right here.] Winston Groom is best known as the author of Forrest Gump, although ask him to pick his favorite work and he'll respond, "If you had sixteen children and someone asked you that, what would you say?" He's also the author of The Crimson Tide: An Illustrated History of Football at the University of Alabama, and as Saban and company prepare for their Saturday Night Football (8pm, ABC) clash w ...

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