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John Irving’s Fictional Character works at EPB

John Irving’s Fictional Character works at EPB

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In John Irving’s The World According to Garp, T.S. Garp writes about a visiting professor looking out of his office window in the English-Philosophy Building (EPB). Garp’s father-in-law “had been a two-time Big Ten wrestling champion at the University of Iowa.”

 

Irving, John. The World According to Garp: A Novel. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1978. Print.