"Irving, John"@en . "John Wallace Blunt, Jr."@en . . "1942-03-02Z"^^ . . . . "John Irving"@en . . "Irving, John Winslow"@en . . . "1942Z"^^ . . "John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt, Jr. on March 2, 1942), is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978. Some of Irving's novels, such as The Cider House Rules (1985), A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), and A Widow for One Year (1998), have been bestsellers. Five of his novels have been adapted to film."@en . . . "American novelist and screenwriter" .