John Winslow Irving (born 2 March 1942) is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (for The Cider House Rules, based on his novel of the same name).
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Also Known As
Birth Name:
John Wallace Blunt
Alternative Names:
John Winslow Irving
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John Wallace Blunt, Jr.
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