He was a product of the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, studying alongside Kurt Vonnegut.
He was a product of the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, studying alongside Kurt Vonnegut. He was sexually abused at the age of 11 by an older woman, which may have accounted for May-December relationships in his novels Until I Find You and (*) A Widow for One Year. He won an Academy Award for adapting his novel Cider House Rules into a screenplay. FTP, name this author of A Prayer for Owen Meany and The World According to Garp.
He was a product of the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, studying alongside Kurt Vonnegut.
John {Irving}