He read with difficulty, a learning disorder that today would probably be characterized as dyslexia. (Sophie Bassouls/CORBIS SYGMA)Īs a boy, John Irving was notably withdrawn, a characteristic he attributes not to unhappiness but to an inborn love of solitude that he believes has served him well as a writer. Irving achieved critical and popular claim after the international success of his novel, The World According to Garp, in 1978. March 1980: American novelist John Irving has traveled many times to Europe, in particular, London and Vienna, and has been a literature lecturer at many American universities. He was renamed John Winslow Irving when his mother re-married in 1948, and he grew up without ever meeting his biological father. His parents divorced when he was only two years old. At the time of his birth, his father was serving as an airman in the Pacific. in Exeter, New Hampshire during World War II.
John Irving was born John Wallace Blunt, Jr.
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