Also Credited As:
John Winslow Irving
Biography
The New Hampshire native took a tip from his high school wrestling coach Ted Seabrooke who told him that "talent is overrated. That you're not very talented needn't be the end of it." Counting himself neither a born athlete nor a born writer, Irving resolved to work that much harder, excelling first as a wrestler and triumphing over dyslexia to become famous for the rich language, comically convoluted plots and stories within stories of his …
LATEST CREDITS
John Irving und wie er die Welt sieht | Himself |
Do Not Enter: The Visa War Against Ideas | Actor |
Great Expectations | Interviewee |
Freestyle: The Victories of Dan Gable | Actor |
In Censors We Trust | Actor |
Storytellers: The PEN Celebration | Actor |
The Paper Curtain | Narration |
The World According to Garp | Referee, Screenplay, Source Material (from novel) ("The World According to Garp" ) |
Boudapesti 3 | Director |
A Son of the Circus | Screenplay, Source Material (from novel) ("A Son of the Circus" ) |
The Cider House Rules | Screenplay, Source Material (from novel) ("The Cider House Rules" ) |
The Fourth Hand | Source Material (from novel: ) |
Simon Birch | Source Material (from novel) ("A Prayer for Owen Meany" ) |
Manchild Revisited: A Commentary by Claude Brown | Writer |
The Door in the Floor | Source Material (from novel: "A Widow for One Year" ) |
The Hotel New Hampshire | Source Material (from novel) ("The Hotel New Hampshire" ) |
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