In a rare television interview, filmed at his home in Vermont, John Irving, the best-selling American author of such popular novels as The World According to Garp reveals the personal traumas which lie behind his fiction.
Abandoned by his father at the age of 2, and later sexually abused by an older woman at the age of 11, he finally admits that almost all his fiction, and especially his book Until I Find You, has been driven by a quest to win the approval of his missing father.
Broadcaster: BBC Four
TX Date: August 2006
Total Episodes: 1
Duration: 60 mins
Executive Producer(s): Colin Cameron
Useful Links: BBC Four