Internationally bestselling author of “The Cider House Rules,” “A Prayer for Owen Meany,” and “The World According to Garp” on stage at Kleinhans American-Canadian novelist, short story writer, and ...

SALISBURY — John Irving has been one of the preeminent voices in literature for over half a century. His novels have become bestsellers and have been adapted into Academy Award-winning films. He won ...

John Irving, the acclaimed author of such classics as "The World According to Garp," "The Cider House Rules," and "A Prayer for Owen Meaney," is back with his first novel in seven years, one that is ...

(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 ...

NEW YORK – 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 Thursday ...

In this episode, NPR's Scott Simon pays best-selling author John Irving a visit in his Toronto home. Across from Irving's family photographs and slanted writing station, they discuss the writer's ...

(RNS) — 'Queen Esther' is a literary riffing on a biblical story. It also might be the most sympathetic treatment of Jewish themes by a non-Jewish novelist in decades.

Garpomania was what they called the remarkable international reaction to John Irving’s 1978 novel “The World According to Garp.” Maybe you remember it? Mr. Irving had been the author of three ...

One of the defining voices in American literature, John Irving, recalled his deep Iowa City ties Friday, Oct. 13 in a wide-ranging talk that delighted a sold-out Hancher Auditorium audience as he ...

When I was 20, I went to Amsterdam and got entirely too high. Bumbling around a hostel lobby I picked up, almost at random, a paperback copy of John Irving’s 1998 novel “A Widow for One Year.” Later, ...