Published his first novel, the coming-of-age story Temple of Gold, in 1957
Before trying his hand at writing screenplays, he wrote five novels and three Broadway plays
Spent eight years working on his debut screenplay, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
After most of the major studios passed on it, the script eventually sold for a record $400,000 and the film became one of the highest-grossing westerns of all time
Published a nonfiction book called The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway in 1969
Although he claimed the 1972 novel The Princess Bride is an abridgment of an earlier book by S
Morgenstern, it is entirely original and S
Morgenstern was actually Goldman's pseudonym
His nonfiction book about Hollywood, Adventures in the Screen Trade (1984), introduced a popular quote often used in reference to the movie business: "Nobody knows anything