John Irving

One of the world's best-selling literary novelists, John Irving was born in Exeter, New Hampshire in 1942. He was educated at the University of Pittsburgh and University of New Hampshire, and also attended the Iowa Writer's Workshop, where one of his teachers was Kurt Vonnegut. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968. His subsequent novels include The Water-Method Man (1972), The 158-Pound Marriage (1974), The World According to Garp (1978),… (mais)