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    John Irving, author portrait
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    John Irving

    JOHN IRVING was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. He is a member of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

    In 1980, Mr. Irving won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screeplay for The Cider House Rules.In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person. Internationally renowned, his novels have been translated into almost forty languages. His all-time bestselling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. 

    A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, John Irving lives in Toronto. Queen Esther is his sixteenth novel.
    The World According to Garp
    The World According to Garp
    A Novel
    John Irving
    9780593186879
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 31, 2021
    Dutton
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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    The World According to Garp
    The World According to Garp
    A Novel
    John Irving
    9780593186879
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Aug 31, 2021
    Dutton
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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