John Irving

:This article is about the author. For the billionaire, see John E. Irving

Studies

While a student at Exeter, Irving was mentored by famed Presbyterian theologian and novelist Frederick Buechner and writing teacher George Bennett, who later helped Irving gain admission to the Iowa Writer's Workshop, America's most elite graduate writing program, then the only one of its kind. Irving briefly studied at the University of Pittsburgh and eventually graduated from the University of New Hampshire. At Iowa, Irving studied alongside future award-winning novelists Gail Godwin, John Casey, and Donald Hendrie, Jr., among others. He was mentored there by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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Presbyterian - Frederick Buechner - George Bennett - Iowa Writer's Workshop - University of Pittsburgh - University of New Hampshire - Gail Godwin - John Casey - Donald Hendrie, Jr. - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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While on foreign study in Vienna, Austria, Irving met his first wife, Shyla Leary, an art student. They married after Shyla became unexpectedly pregnant, and eventually had two sons before divorcing in the mid-1980s. Irving subsequently wed his agent, Janet Turnbull, with whom he has a third son.

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Vienna - Austria - Shyla Leary - Pregnant - 1980 - Janet Turnbull

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