John Irving, writer, wrestled from the time he was fourteen. John was a small kid, who loved wrestling, a sport that required self discipline and devotion. John took the discipline he learned from wrestling to his career as a writer, finding that it takes as much discipline, if not more, to stick with a large manuscript as it does to train to wrestle. John also coached wrestling after college to pay the bills while he waited for his.....
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