john irving

     

Before he was famous he drove around with a license plate that read "Garp"

Trivia about john irving

  • "The World According to Garp" is according to him
  • This graduate of the University of New Hampshire published "The Hotel New Hampshire" in 1981
  • This author appears briefly in "The Cider House Rules" as a train stationmaster, but he didn't give himself any lines
  • "The 158-Pound Marriage","The Cider House Rules","A Son of the Circus"
  • In 1992 this "Cider House Rules" author was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame
  • "In the world according to Garp, we're all terminal cases", wrote this novelist
  • He said his 1994 novel "A Son of the Circus" "Isn't about India. I don't know India. I was there only once"
  • The Phillips Exeter Academy was the model for the Steering School in his "The World According to Garp"
  • 2-4-6-8, this "Garp" man who also wrote "Setting Free the Bears" is really great!
  • 1998's "Simon Birch" was a loose adaptation of this author's "A Prayer For Owen Meany"
  • Published in 1969, "Setting Free the Bears" was the first novel by this author