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John Irving

Biography

John Irving

SETTING FREE THE BEARS, in 1968. He has been nominated for a National Book Award three times–winning once, in 1980, for the novel THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP. He also received an O. Henry Award, in 1981, for the short story “Interior Space.” In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for THE CIDER HOUSE RULES–a film with seven Academy Award nominations. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER is John Irving’s twelfth novel.

Books by John Irving

by John Irving - Fiction

Owen Meany, the only child of a New Hampshire granite quarrier, believes he is God's instrument. He is. This is John Irving's most comic novel, yet at the same time Owen Meany is the most heartbreaking character Irving has created.