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Date of Birth
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02-March-1942
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Place of Birth
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Exeter
(New Hampshire, Rockingham County, New Hampshire’s 1st congressional district, Seacoast Region)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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John Wallace Blunt Jr., John Winslow Irving, John Wallace Blunt, Jr.
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Profession
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Novelist, Screenwriter, Author
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John Winslow Irving 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 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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