JOHN IRVING CHRONOLOGY

1942  Born March 2 in Exeter, New Hampshire 1961  Graduates from Phillips Exeter Academy, in Exeter, NH 1961-1962  Attends University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsbugh, PA 1962-1965  Attends and graduates cum laudefrom University of New Hampshire, in Durham, NH 1963-1964  Studies at University of Vienna in Austria 1964  Marries Shyla Leary in Greece 1965  Son Colin born in Austria 1967  Graduates from with MFA University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; studied with Vance Bourjaily and Kurt Vonnegut 1968  Setting Free the Bears published; teaches at Windham College in Putney, VT 1969-1971  Lives in Vienna and Putney, VT; works on screenplay for "Setting Free the Bears" 1970  Son Brendan born 1972  Receives the Rockefeller Foundation Grant; publishes The Water-Method Man 1972-1975  Writer-in-residence at The University of Iowa 1974  Publishes The 158-Pound Marriage 1974-1975  Receives National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1975-1978 Serves as Assistant Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA 1976-1977 Receives Guggenheim Foundation Grant 1978  Publishes The World According to Garp 1981  Publishes The Hotel New Hamshire 1982  Film version "The World According to Garp" released To Be Continued...

Courtesy of: Miller, Gabriel.  John Irving.  New York: Ungar Publishing Co., Inc., 1982.