biography
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Irving, John (Winslow)
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| lived:
| (1942– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. He studied at the Universities of New Hampshire (1965 BA), Iowa (1967 MFA), Pittsburgh (1961–2), and Vienna (Austria) (1963–4), and went on to teach at Mount Holyoke (1967–72), the University of Iowa (1972–5), and at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Middlebury, VT. His first three novels received little attention, but he made his name with The World According To Garp (1978, filmed 1982). He is considered an inventive writer who combined elements of tragedy and antic comedy. He is also widely praised for several later novels, including The Hotel New Hampshire (1981, filmed 1984), The Cider House Rules (1985, filmed 1999, Oscar), A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), A Widow for One Year (1998), and The Fourth Hand (2002). In 1999 appeared My Movie Business: A Memoir. |
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