John Irving

b. 1942

8 standalone books

John Irving is an American novelist and screenwriter. He was born in 1942 in Exeter, New Hampshire. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968 when he was twenty-six. Irving competed as a wrestler for twenty years and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times, winning once in 1980 for The World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for the short story Interior Space. In 2000, he won an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for In One Person. His novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages, and he lives in Toronto. His best-selling novel globally is A Prayer for Owen Meany.

Born

1942