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A Short Biography of John Irving

Author Name:

John Irving

Born As:

John Wallace Blunt, Jr.

Other Names:

John Winslow Irving

Born:

2 Mar 1942

Died:





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Author and screenwriter                          
Selected Works:


Setting Free the Bears - 1968
The Water-Method Man - 1972
The 158-Pound Marriage - 1974
The World According to Garp - 1978
The Hotel New Hampshire - 1981
The Cider House Rules - 1985
A Prayer for Owen Meany - 1989
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed - collection, 1993
A Son of the Circus - 1994
The Imaginary Girlfriend - non-fiction, 1996
A Widow for One Year - 1998
My Movie Business - non-fiction, 1999
The Cider House Rules: A Screenplay - 1999
The Fourth Hand - 2001
A Sound Like Someone Trying Not to Make a Sound - 2004
Until I Find You - 2005
Last Night In Twisted River - 2009                          
                          
Won the 2000 Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for his novel The Cider House Rules.