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 and many have been made into movies. 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 where Irving grew up as the son of an Exeter faculty member, Colin F.N. Irving (1941), and nephew of another,
H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell (1929). (Both Irving and Bissell, and other members of the Exeter community, appear somewhat disguised in many of his novels.)
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Irving was in the Exeter wrestling program both as a wrestler and as an assistant coach, and wrestling features prominently in his books, stories and life.
He won the
Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award for 1999 for his script of
The Cider House Rules.
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