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** Many of Irving's books also contain transgender characters going back to ''Literature/TheWorldAccordingToGarp'', and one of Irving's children is a trans woman who is also a writer.
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* AuthorAppeal: Particularly in his earlier works, it was almost a running joke that any given Irving novel would contain references to bears, prostitution, [[DisappearedDad disappeared dads]], New England private schools, wrestling, and/or Vienna. Wiki/ThatOtherWiki previously had a section tracking which novels contained which subjects. Later works tone it down by containing only one or two of these motifs, rather than 3+.

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* AuthorAppeal: Particularly in his earlier works, it was almost a running joke that any given Irving novel would contain references to bears, prostitution, [[DisappearedDad disappeared dads]], New England private schools, wrestling, and/or Vienna. Wiki/ThatOtherWiki Website/ThatOtherWiki previously had a section tracking which novels contained which subjects. Later works tone it down by containing only one or two of these motifs, rather than 3+.
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* TheMentor: He names Creator/KurtVonnegut as his, and the two remanded friends until Vonnegut's death in 2008.
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* AuthorAppeal: Particularly in his earlier works, it was almost a running joke that any given Irving novel would contain references to bears, prostitution, [[DisappearedDad disappeared dads]], New England private schools, wrestling, and/or Vienna. ThatOtherWiki previously had a section tracking which novels contained which subjects. Later works tone it down by containing only one or two of these motifs, rather than 3+.

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* AuthorAppeal: Particularly in his earlier works, it was almost a running joke that any given Irving novel would contain references to bears, prostitution, [[DisappearedDad disappeared dads]], New England private schools, wrestling, and/or Vienna. ThatOtherWiki Wiki/ThatOtherWiki previously had a section tracking which novels contained which subjects. Later works tone it down by containing only one or two of these motifs, rather than 3+.
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* AuthorAppeal: Particularly in his earlier works, it was almost a running joke that any given Irving novel would contain references to bears, prostitution, [[DisappearedDad disappeared dads]], New England private schools, wrestling, and/or Vienna. ThatOtherWiki previously had a section tracking which novels contained which subjects. Later works tone it down by containing only one or two of these motifs, rather than 3+.
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* BigNameFan: Irving counts Creator/StephenKing as one of his biggest fans.
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** The narrator of ''The 158 Pound Marriage'' is a semi-successful author of historical fiction. The novel describes but also results from an author's frustrating, year-long research trip to Vienna, which yielded no intriguing fictional narratives but did yield a hot wife.

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** The narrator of ''The 158 Pound 158-Pound Marriage'' is a semi-successful author of historical fiction. The novel describes but also results from an author's frustrating, year-long research trip to Vienna, which yielded no intriguing fictional narratives but did yield a hot wife.

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