A lifelong Alabama resident, Stephen has spent 10 years reporting for various media outlets in the Tuscaloosa area, including stints at the Crimson White, the Birmingham News and AL.com, the Tuscaloosa News and more before joining the team at Townsquare Media, where he now serves as the editor-in-chief of the Tuscaloosa Thread.
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Winston Groom, Beloved Author of Forrest Gump, Dies at 77
Winston Groom, the southern novelist adored for authoring Forrest Gump, has died at the age of 77 in Point Clear, Alabama.