John Irving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt, Jr. ; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the internation...
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it was John Irving's high-school wrestling coach, Ted Seabrooke, who told him that "talent is overrated. ... Since 1978, when he published "The World According to Garp," Irving has produced eight long novels, all of them bestsellers, and has become one of the best known authors in America, famous for his comically...
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John Irving published his first novel at the age of twenty-six. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Oscar.
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John Irving: I build a novel from the back to the front; I know the end of the story before I write the first sentence. I try to write the last sentence first, even the last several paragraphs. I knew that Jack's father, William Burns, was waiting for his son to find him;
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John Irving, b. Exeter, N.H., Mar. 2, 1942, is an author whose sprawling fourth novel, The World According to Garp (1978; film, 1982), earned him a huge following and a National Book Award nomination. ... John Irving (1942- ) ... University of South Carolina Press (publishers of Understanding John Irving by Edward C. Reilly)
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As a boy, John Irving was notably withdrawn, a characteristic he attributes not to unhappiness but to an inborn love of solitude that he believes has served him well as a writer. He read with difficulty, a learning disorder that today would probably be characterized as dyslexia.
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