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. Irving was born John... Wallace Blunt, Jr. in Exeter, New Hampshire, the son of Helen Frances and John Wallace Blunt, Sr., a writer and executive recruiter. Irving grew up in Exeter, as the stepson of an Exeter faculty member, Colin F.N. Irving , and nephew of another, H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell . Irving was in the Exeter wrestling program both as a student athlete and as an assistant coach, and wrestling features prominently in his books, stories and life.
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| Birthdate: | March 2, 1942 |
| Birthplace: | Exeter, New Hampshire |
| Age: | 70 |
| Education: | Phillips Exeter Academy, Iowa Writers' Workshop |
| Also known as: | John Wallace Blunt Jr. |