John Irving

Novelist, Author

1942 –

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Who is John Irving?

John Winslow Irving is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.

Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. Some of Irving's novels, such as The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, have been bestsellers. Five of his novels have been adapted to film. Several of Irving's books and short stories have been set in and around Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1999 for his script The Cider House Rules.

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Born
Mar 2, 1942
Exeter
Also known as
  • John Wallace Blunt Jr.
  • John Winslow Irving
  • John Wallace Blunt, Jr.
Parents
Spouses
Children
Ethnicity
  • White American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Phillips Exeter Academy
  • Iowa Writers' Workshop
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • University of Iowa
  • University of New Hampshire
Employment
  • Mount Holyoke College
Lived in
  • Exeter

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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