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John Irving
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American novelist and screenwriter
John Irving is an American novelist and screenwriter known for writing literary fiction. His works, which have been adapted into films and television productions, have made him a significant figure in contemporary American literature.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 2 march 1942
- Works
- 254
Top works
- The Cider House Rules
- Tefilah le-Oṿen Mini
- Queen Esther
- The Hotel New Hampshire
- A WIDOW FOR ONE YEAR
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1942-03-02
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,193
- Total plays
- 36,159
Tags
John Irving is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Ogden, Utah. He has independently released one album. The album is entitled "Gluttony, Alcohol, Misogyny, Ukulele" and features the single "Ecstasy". He is perhaps best known for posting covers on Youtube of popular songs, transcribed to the ukulele. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Irving">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,620x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,712x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,354x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,338x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,853x
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Quotes
- “He wrote Helen that "a part of adolescence is feeling that there's no one else around you who's enough like yourself to understand you."”
- “Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
- “Imagination, he realized, came harder than memory.”
- “In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases.”
- “To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread, we were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.”
- “You’ve got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
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Wikidata facts
- 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
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- John Irving
- name in native language
- John Irving
- start of work period
- 1968-00-00
- birth name
- John Wallace Blunt
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Article
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.