In his new foreword to the fortieth-anniversary edition of the book, Irving writes that back in 1977, he thought the novel was about “the polarization of the sexes … the story was about men and women growing further apart. In rereading the novel recently, I wasn’t surprised that these themes had struck me so deeply, though Garp is about so much else as well. It was my first exposure to an openly trans character and an openly asexual and aromantic character in fiction, the first book I read that explicitly discussed feminism and confronted toxic masculinity head on (though it didn’t call it that and, in my first reading, I didn’t, either). I had thought, mistakenly, that I’d first read it in high school, but regardless, it had made an impression on me. Avenue of Mysteries is his fourteenth novel.According to my Goodreads page, the first time I read The World According to Garp, by John Irving, was after my first year of college. His all-time best-selling novel, in every language, is A Prayer for Owen Meany. An international writer-his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages-John Irving lives in Toronto. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person.
Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story "Interior Space." In 2000, Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times-winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. JOHN IRVING was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. AWC Library | Author of the Month: John Irving
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