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John Irving published his first novel at the age of 26. He has received awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Foundation; he has won an O. Henry Award, a National Book Award for The World According to Garp, and an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules.
In 1992, Mr. Irving was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in Stillwater, Oklahoma. In 2001, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
His novels include A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Fourth Hand, and his 11th, Until I Find You (2005).
The film The Door in the Floor, adapted from A Widow for One Year, by the director Tod Williams, released in theaters in summer 2004. Mr. Irving has three screenplays in-progress and has begun work on his 12th novel, Last Night in Twisted River, which is set in a New Hampshire sawmill settlement, spanning five decades, as the central character and his 12-year-old son become fugitives after a case of mistaken identity. It will be released by Bloomsbury UK in October 2009. 
Screenwriter