Biography of JOHN IRVING
-John Winslow Irving was born on March, 2nd, in 1942 in Exeter New Hampshire, USA. His father was a prof of russian history and his mother was a nurse
-He was dyslexic before that particular learning disability had been identified by name. He says that he was an underdog and that he had to control the pace of everything
-He visited the Exeter Prep-School and in 1956, at the age of fourteen, he begins to write and to wrestle
-His stepfather, a Harvard graduate, taught history at the school
-He has studied at the university of New Hampshire
-He participates in a fo…