

įive of his novels have been adapted into films ( Garp, Hotel, Meany, Cider, Widow).

He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in the 72nd Academy Awards (1999) for his script of The Cider House Rules.

Many of Irving's novels, including The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), The Cider House Rules (1985), A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), and A Widow for One Year (1998), have been bestsellers. Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. March 2, 1942) is an American- Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr. Academy Award for Best Adapted ScreenplayĪward for paperback general Fiction for The World According to Garp
