约翰·欧文，又译约翰·艾文，（1942-）是当代美国小说家，被美国文坛泰斗冯尼古特誉为“美国最重要的幽默作家”。
批评家为他对未来世界的惊人的天才想象力而惊奇，将他与托马斯。皮琼和约翰·欧文相对比。
Critics marveled at the prodigious talent evident in his imaginative take on a future world, comparing him to Thomas Pynchon and John Irving.
在近代，妇女们会晕倒则是因为听约翰·欧文读到《心尘往事》(The Cider House Rules)里在厨房的桌上堕胎的情节。
In recent history, women have fainted while John Irving read a kitchen table abortion scene from his novel Ciderhouse Rules.
虽然特里林毕业于耶鲁大学(他父亲在读完欧文·约翰逊的1911故事《耶鲁的柴火》这本书后，鼓励他去东部)，但是他生长在密苏里堪萨斯城。
Although Mr Trillin graduated from Yale University (his father encouraged him to go east having read Owen Johnson's 1911 tale, "Stover at Yale"), he was brought up in Kansas City, Missouri.
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