Widely regarded as the inspiration for the iPad; Steve Jobs said that he wanted to make a computer “simple enough for Forrest to use.” Featured in the Robert Zemeckis film Forrest Gump.

Writer Winston Groom, whose novel Forrest Gump was made into the hugely successful Oscar-winning 1994 film starring Tom Hanks, has died aged 77. The book, about the childlike optimism of a slow ...