![]() ![]() Irving became a teacher himself, working at Mount Holyoke College, but he continued to write, and began to publish novels in the late 1960s. ![]() He eventually returned to the US and graduated from the University of New Hampshire, following which Irving studied at the highly prestigious Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa, where he was mentored by Kurt Vonnegut. After briefly attending the University of Pittsburgh, he studied at the Institute for European Studies in Vienna under the tutelage of the acclaimed German novelist Gunter Grass. Despite his dyslexia, he became an avid reader and writer, and also developed a great love of wrestling. As the stepson of a faculty member, John grew up in and around the academy. Irving never knew his father his stepfather taught history at Phillips Exeter Academy, a prestigious boarding school in Exeter. John Irving was born on March 2, 1942, in the town of Exeter, New Hampshire. ![]()
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