John Irving (1) (1942–)
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John Irving published his first novel at the age of twenty-six. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award, and an Academy Award. (Publisher Provided) John Irving was toon meer born John Wallace Blunt, Jr. on March 2, 1942 in Exeter, New Hampshire. His named was changed to John Winslow Irving when his stepfather adopted him at the age of six. He was a dyslexic child and it took him five years to get through Exeter Academy, which is where his adoptive father taught Russian history. He received a B.A. (cum laude) from the University of New Hampshire in 1965 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, in 1967, where he studied with Kurt Vonnegut Jr. His first novel was Setting Free the Bears (1969) but it wasn't until The World According to Garp was published in 1978, that he became a literary star. The novel spent six months on the bestseller list and won the American Book Award in 1980. It was also made into a movie in 1982 starring Robin Williams and costarring Glenn Close and John Lithgow. In 1981, he received an O. Henry Award for the short story Interior Space. Some of his other novels were also made into movies including The Hotel New Hampshire starring Jodie Foster and Rob Lowe; A Prayer for Owen Meany, which was titled Simon Birch starring Jim Carrey; and The Cider House Rules starring Michael Caine. He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules in 2000. Irving also wrote two memoirs; one detailing his wrestling adventures entitled The Imaginary Girlfriend, and another concerning his novels made into Hollywood films entitled My Movie Business: A Memoir. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Irving, John Winslow
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Blunt, John Wallace, Jr.
- Geboortedatum
- 1942-03-02
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Exeter, New Hampshire, USA
- Opleiding
- University of New Hampshire
University of Iowa (Iowa Writers' Workshop)
Phillips Exeter Academy
University of Pittsburgh
University of Vienna - Beroepen
- novelist
short-story writer
teacher
wrestling coach - Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [2001])
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award (2000)
National Wrestling Hall of Fame (1992)
National Book Award (1980 for The World According to Garp)
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Group Read: The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving in 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (juli 2012)
Group Read: The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving (planning thread) in 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (juli 2012)
A Prayer for Owen Meany in Someone explain it to me... (augustus 2011)
50 States Fiction and Nonfiction Reads in Fifty States Fiction (or Nonfiction) Challenge (april 2011)
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