John
Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt, Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American
novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
Irving
achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The
World According to Garp in 1978. Some of Irving's novels, such as The Cider
House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, have been bestsellers. Five of his
novels have been adapted to film. Several of Irving's books (Garp, Meany, A
Widow for One Year) and short stories have been set in and around Phillips
Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. He won the Academy Award for Best
Adapted Screenplay in 1999 for his script The Cider House Rules.
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