

His all-time best-selli JOHN IRVING was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942.

An international writer-his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages-John Irving lives in Toronto. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story “Interior Space.” In 2000, Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times-winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six.

JOHN IRVING was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942.
