NEW YORK (AP) — In John Irving's next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud's, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed “The Cider House Rules.” Simon & Schuster announced ...

This spring, I was lucky enough to spend a few days with John Irving. He’s a man who needs no introduction. His weighty novels—The World According to Garp, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Cider House ...

John Irving marches to his own drummer. Hence his methodology when creating a work of fiction. “I never start a novel until I have a predetermined and predestined ending,” he says. “I’m something a ...

(JTA) — The novelist John Irving is famous for telling stories set in his native New England and in Austria, the site of a pivotal adventure in his young adulthood. Now, the two settings will collide ...