Irving, John Winslow
Irving, John Winslow ( 1942 – ),American novelist, born in Exeter, New Hampshire, educated locally and at the universities of Pittsburgh, Vienna, New Hampshire, and Iowa. From 1967 to 1972 , and again from 1975 to 1978 , he was an assistant professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. His serio-comic novels, which display great individuality of style and imagination, began with Setting Free the Bears ( 1968 ), about two young men on a motorcycle tour of Austria who plot to free all the animals in the Vienna Zoo. This was followed by The Water-Method Man ( 1972 ) and The 158-Pound Marriage ( 1974 ). These made little impact, but with The World According to Garp ( 1978 ), the comic biography of a writer, he achieved spectacular international success. After this came The Hotel New Hampshire ( 1981 ), The Cider House Rules ( 1985 ), A Prayer for Owen Meaney ( 1989...
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