Robin Jordan, Writing Center Director
with JBWC Youth Ambassadors
Barbara Cole
Executive & Artistic Director, Just Buffalo Literary Center
John Irving
Moderated by Barbara Cole
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JOHN IRVING has written fifteen novels over the course of his prolific career, the majority of which have been international bestsellers. He has written some of the most acclaimed books of our timeโamong them The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year.
Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942, his books explore themes of sexual difference and sexual intolerance, inequalities, and discrimination.
Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times, winning in 1980 for The World According to Garp. In 2000, he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for In One Person. Internationally renowned, his books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. A Prayer for Owen Meany is his best-selling novel, in every language. His most recent novel is The Last Chairlift.
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BARBARA COLE is the Executive & Artistic Director of Just Buffalo Literary Center.
A 2011 fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Cole received her M.A. in Creative Writing from Temple University in Philadelphia and Ph.D. in English with a specialization in Poetics from the University at Buffalo.
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