- Born
- Birth nameJohn Wallace Blunt Jr.
- Height5′ 7¾″ (1.72 m)
- John Irving was born on March 2, 1942 in Exeter, New Hampshire, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for The Cider House Rules (1999), The Door in the Floor (2004) and The World According to Garp (1982). He has been married to Janet Turnbull since 1987. They have one child. He was previously married to Shyla Leary.
- SpousesJanet Turnbull(1987 - present) (1 child)Shyla Leary(1964 - 1982) (divorced, 2 children)
- He has been a wrestling coach for years.
- Never knew his father and was raised by his stepfather.
- Not owning a personal computer, writes all his novels the long-handed way.
- He is the only Oscar winning screenwriter to win for adapting his own novel.
- Was on the cover of Time Magazine in August of 1982.
- When I feel like being a director, I write a novel.
- Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.
- (What he calls his incredibly popular novel "The World According to Garp"): "An artfully-disguised soap opera."
- There's a minority which is an open target in this country which no one protects, and that's rich people.
- In my novels I have always been attracted to sexual outsiders or misfits. I am drawn to these characters because I love them. But I also fear for them. I'm afraid of how the more mainstream world will abuse and mistreat them.
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