{"id":10927,"date":"2017-03-10T16:59:23","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T16:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/bridges-of-madison-county-author-robert-james-waller-dies-77\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T16:59:23","slug":"bridges-of-madison-county-author-robert-james-waller-dies-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/bridges-of-madison-county-author-robert-james-waller-dies-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridges of Madison County author Robert James Waller dies, 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Waller\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/16CB0\/production\/_95106339_gettyimages-814079.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Waller died in Texas, his agent confirmed                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Robert James Waller, the author of best-selling book The Bridges of Madison County, has died in Texas at the age of 77, his agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Waller published seven books, but Bridges was his most famous, selling 12 million copies in 35 languages.<\/p>\n<p>The romantic novel was adapted into a 1995 film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep, who was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar in the role.<\/p>\n<p>The bittersweet 1992 love story was also adapted into a Broadway musical. <\/p>\n<figure>                                                                                                       Image copyright                  Warner Bros Pictures<figcaption>Image caption                                      The Eastwood-directed movie earned more than $182m                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Bridges, which Waller said he wrote in only 11 days, tells the story of a National Geographic photographer who woos an Italian war-bride married to an Iowa farmer, after she agrees to help him to photograph the region&#039;s famous covered bridges.<\/p>\n<p>The Eastwood-directed movie grossed $182m (\u00a3150m) worldwide, and the book remained on the New York Times bestseller list for more than three years.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-39226686 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption Waller died in Texas, his agent confirmed Robert James Waller, the author of best-selling book The Bridges of Madison County, has died in Texas at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}