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John Irving
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John Irving's critically-acclaimed 'Avenue of Mysteries'
John Irving tells the story of a Mexican "dump kid" who learns...
John Irving on Writing About Writers
John Irving's 'Avenue of Mysteries'
John Irving on His Narrator's Speech Impediment
John Benjamin Hickey on narrating IN ONE PERSON
John Irving on Theatricality in Fiction
John Irving on the Power of Secrets
John Irving on Family Dysfunction
John Irving on Abortion and Gay Rights in his Novels
John Irving on the Scene He Can't Read to Audiences
About The Author
John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 1980, Mr. Irving won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. Internationally renowned, his novels have been translated into almost forty languages. His all-time bestselling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto.
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