Streep was nominated in 1996 for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance. The film earned $182 million worldwide and was well-received by critics. Robert James Waller, the Bridges of Madison County author, who died at the age of 77, had a tangled romantic history that was worthy of his books. It was made into a 1995 film of the same name, produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, who also starred in it with Meryl Streep. The book debuted on the New York Times bestseller list in August 1992 and slowly climbed to number 1, and remained on the list for over three years (164 consecutive weeks), through October 8, 1995. This event, alongside a song Waller wrote years earlier about "the dreams of a woman named Francesca", gave him the idea for the novella, which he completed in eleven days. On leave from his teaching job at the University of Northern Iowa, Waller was photographing the Mississippi River with a friend when he decided to photograph the covered bridges of Madison County, Iowa. Without expecting to, Robert James Waller conceived of The Bridges of Madison County in the early 1990s.
Signed by Robert James Waller on the half-title page. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial title page, illustrated with photographs by the author. First edition, later printing of the author's best-selling romance novella, the basis for the 1995 film of the same name starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.
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