Editing John Irving (section)

==Personal life==
In 1964, Irving married Shyla Leary,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20134994,00.html |title=Hands Full |author=Kim Hubbard |work=People |date=July 30, 2001 |access-date=November 4, 2009 |archive-date=May 18, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090518024352/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20134994,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> whom he had met at [[Harvard University|Harvard]] in 1963 while taking a summer course in German, before traveling to [[Vienna]] with [[Institute for the International Education of Students|IES Abroad]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,954955-6,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203180218/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,954955-6,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 3, 2010 |access-date=November 4, 2009 |date=August 31, 1981 |title=Life into Art: Novelist John Irving |author=R.Z. Sheppard |magazine=Time}}</ref> They have two sons, Colin and Brendan.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,283246,00.html |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |title=Widow Maker |author=Benjamin Svetkey |access-date=November 4, 2009 |date=May 22, 1998 |archive-date=October 10, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010185434/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,283246,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The couple divorced in the early 1980s.<ref name="Ariel Leve">{{cite news |url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/article6877022.ece |access-date=November 4, 2009 |date=October 18, 2009 |work=The Sunday Times |author=Ariel Leve |title=The world according to John Irving |location=London}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> In 1987, he married Janet Turnbull, who had been his publisher at Bantam-Seal Books<ref name="Ariel Leve"/><ref name="independent.co.uk">{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/cooking-up-a-storm-john-irvings-latest-saga-reveals-the-secrets-of-authors-and-chefs-alike-1807175.html |work=The Independent |date=October 23, 2009 |access-date=November 3, 2009 |author=Boyd Tonkin |title=Cooking up a storm: John Irving's latest saga reveals the secrets of authors and chefs alike |location=London |archive-date=October 29, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029075759/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/cooking-up-a-storm-john-irvings-latest-saga-reveals-the-secrets-of-authors-and-chefs-alike-1807175.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and is now one of his literary agents.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nymag.com/arts/books/profiles/59881/ |access-date=November 4, 2009 |date=October 11, 2009 |title=Call of the Wild |author=Boris Kachka |work=New York |archive-date=October 17, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017000757/http://nymag.com/arts/books/profiles/59881/ |url-status=live }}</ref> They have one daughter, actor and writer Eva Everett Irving.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-10-23 |title=Novelist John Irving: "You don't get to choose your obsessions; your obsessions choose you." - CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/novelist-john-irving-the-last-chairlift/ |access-date=2025-02-03 |website=www.cbsnews.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

Irving has homes in [[Toronto]] and [[Pointe au Baril, Ontario]].<ref name="independent.co.uk"/> On December 13, 2019, Irving became a Canadian citizen. He has said he plans to keep his U.S. citizenship, reserving the right to be outspoken about the United States and his dislike of [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dundas |first1=Deborah |title='Ending up here is a love story.' American writer John Irving becomes a Canadian citizen |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2019/12/17/american-writer-john-irving-becomes-a-canadian-citizen.html |access-date=13 December 2019 |work=[[Toronto Star]] |date=13 December 2019 |quote=He reserves the right to continue to be outspoken about the United States. He reserves the right to criticize. "I very much intend to keep my American citizenship. ... He is vocal, very vocal, about his dislike of Trump ("his vulgarity, his narcissism ... his xenophobia"). |archive-date=December 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214023600/https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2019/12/17/american-writer-john-irving-becomes-a-canadian-citizen.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Irving was diagnosed with [[prostate cancer]] in 2007 and subsequently had a [[Prostatectomy|radical prostatectomy]].<ref name="Ariel Leve"/>

Irving is a second cousin of academic Amy Bishop, who was convicted of perpetrating the [[2010 University of Alabama in Huntsville shooting]].<ref>{{cite news|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|author=Meghan E. Irons|date=February 17, 2010|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/02/ala_slay_suspec_1.html|access-date=February 21, 2010|title=Ala. slay defendant is related to novelist John Irving|archive-date=February 20, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220180320/http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/02/ala_slay_suspec_1.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2018, Irving was an honorary degree recipient at [[Williams College]].