How Did I Not Know?

So it's Thursday night which means Chris has class until 10pm and I'm only 4 days into my 7 day work week, so here I sit wrapped in a blanket on the couch trying to talk myself into doing something more productive than watching Food Network. I'm not getting very far. Anyways, they're having some food competition on the Food Network and one of the amateur competitor is Winston Groom. I had no idea who this guy was until the announcer person says: "he wrote the famous book Forest Gump" Am I the only one that didn't know the movie Forest Gump was based on a novel? Now, granted the movie came out in 1994 which mean that I was 13 years old, which may be why I didn't know. But still did you know?