The Resume

(March 2, 1942- )
Resides in Vermont and Toronto
Birth name is John Wallace Blunt, Jr.
Wrote 'Setting Free the Bears (1968),' 'The Water-Method Man (1972),' 'The 158-Pound Marriage (1974),' 'The World According to Garp (1978),' 'The Hotel New Hampshire (1981),' 'The Cider House Rules (1985),' 'A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989),' 'A Son of the Circus (1994),' 'Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996),' 'A Widow for One Year (1998)' and 'The Fourth Hand (2001)'

Why he might be annoying:

His books are full of bizarre situations and grotesque humor.
He has been criticized for sexism and 'punishing' his female characters.
'The Cider House Rules' is a thinly veiled political statement about abortion.
He agreed to let 'A Prayer for Owen Meany' be made into a movie. He then changed his mind but made the film makers use a different title and character names.

Why he might not be annoying:

He is frequently compared to Charles Dickens.
He has created many vivid and memorable characters.
He is badly dyslexic, which makes his chosen profession a difficult one.
He sometimes coaches wrestling in schools.
He is a member of the American Wrestling Hall of Fame.
He won an Oscar for his screenplay adaptation of 'The Cider House Rules.'
He once flew to Europe next to a woman reading one of his books, but he didn't tell her who he was, because he didn't want her to stop reading.

Credit: Wieland Kalligaro

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 100 Most Frequently Banned or Challenged Books [2000-09] (Ranked: 76)
• Amateur Wrestlers
• Authors Who Make Cameos in Their Book’s Movie
• BBC Big Read: The UK's Top 200 Novels [2003] (Ranked: 28)
• BBC Big Read: The UK's Top 200 Novels [2003] (Ranked: 165)
• Born on Dr. Seuss Day [March 2nd] (Ranked: 1942)
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [March] (Ranked: 3021942)
• Daily Beast's 11 Greatest Literary Feuds [2010] (Ranked: 6)
• Entertainment Weekly's 100 Best Books [1983-2008] (Ranked: 73)
• I am a New Englander
• I am Religiously Ambiguous
• I Attended Phillips Exeter Academy [New Hampshire]
• I Attended Putney
• I Attended University of New Hampshire
• I Attended University of Pittsburgh
• I Have Dyslexia
• I Publicly Trashed My Book’s Movie
• I Write Bildungsroman
• Look at Me, I'm a Man in Shades
• NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002] (Ranked: 64)
• People Magazine's 25 Most Intriguing People [1978]
• Profiles 12001-12250 (Ranked: 12071)
• Raped
• Silver Foxes [Gray and Don't Care]
• Walruses
• Wieland Kalligaro's Profiles [Series 3]
• Wrestlers Turned Authors

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 14 Votes: 14.29% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 15 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 8 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 59 Votes: 47.46% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 73 Votes: 43.84% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 60 Votes: 35.00% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 68 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 82 Votes: 52.44% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 41 Votes: 39.02% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 32 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 89 Votes: 58.43% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 161 Votes: 45.96% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 532 Votes: 42.29% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 202 Votes: 48.51% Annoying