John Irving

Irving in 2010 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''.

Five of his novels have been fully or partially adapted into the films ''The World According to Garp'' (1982), ''The Hotel'' ''New Hampshire'' (1984), ''Simon Birch'' (1998), ''The Cider House Rules'' (1999), and ''The Door in the Floor'' (2004). Several of Irving's books and short stories have been set in and around New England, in fictional towns resembling Exeter, New Hampshire. Provided by Wikipedia
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