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Date of Birth

2 March 1942, Exeter, New Hampshire, USA

Birth Name

John Wallace Blunt Jr.

Mini Biography

Born in New Hampshire, Irving is married and has three sons. He lives in Vermont and Toronto.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous

Spouse

Janet Turnbull	(1987 - present) 1 child
Shyla Leary	(1964 - 1982) (divorced) 2 children

Trivia

John has two children, Colin (33) and Brendan (28) from his first marriage. He has a third son, Everett (age 6 as of May, 1998), from his current marriage.

Wrote the adaptation of "The Cider House Rules" over a period of 13 years.

He has been a wrestling coach for years.

Won an American Book award for "The World According to Garp."

Inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 1992.

Always prides himself on having a "good imagination."

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors." New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 269-276. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.

Never knew his father and was raised by his stepfather.

Was on the cover of Time Magazine in August of 1982.

Not owning a personal computer, writes all his novels the long-handed way.

Wrestled for the University of Pittsburgh.

Personal Quotes

"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."

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