The World According To Garp

About John Irving

John Irving the novelist and screenwriter competed as a wrestler for twenty years. He was Kurt Vonnegut's student in the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa where Mr. Irving later taught. In 1980 he won a National Book Award for his novel The World According to Garp. In 2000 he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules which also won a Maggie Award from Planned Parenthood-in recognition of exceptional achievement in the area of reproductive rights. In 2012 and 2013 Mr. Irving won two Lambda Literary Awards: for Bisexual Fiction for In One Person; also a Bridge Builder Award for writing empathetically about the LGBTQ community. His novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages.John Irving lives in Toronto. He is at work on a fifteenth novel-a ghost story titled Darkness as a Bride-and he's in the process of adapting The World According to Garp as a television miniseries.