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John Irving
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American novelist and screenwriter
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John Irving is an American male author whose career began in 1968. He has been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. His bibliography includes 254 works, with notable titles such as *The Cider House Rules*, *The Hotel New Hampshire*, *A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR*, *Tefilah le-Oṿen Mini*, and *Queen Esther*.
Born on March 2, 1942, Irving is associated with spoken words, radio plays, and audiobooks, including German productions. His official website is john-irving.com. The author has also contributed to Wikiquote, where entries include statements on imagination and memory, such as "Imagining something is better than remembering something."
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Family name
- Irving
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Exeter
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- University of New Hampshire
- Employer
- Mount Holyoke College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- O. Henry Award
- Notable work
- A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Official website
- john-irving.com
- Image
- John Irving Hengelo 2.jpg
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- Commons category
- John Irving
- date of birth
- 1942-03-02
- member of
- Writers Guild of America, East
- topic's main category
- Category:John Irving
- Commons gallery
- John Irving
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay
- name in native language
- John Irving
- start of work period
- 1968-00-00
- relative
- Svea Irving
- writing language
- English language
- medical condition
- dyslexia
- birth name
- John Wallace Blunt
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Encyclopedic overview
John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American and Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.
Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of his fourth novel The World According to Garp in 1978. Many of Irving's novels, including The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), The Cider House Rules (1985), A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), and A Widow for One Year (1998), have been bestsellers. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 72nd Academy Awards in 2000 for his script of the film adaptation of The Cider House Rules.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Irving” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.