John irving

John Irving was born in Exeter, NH, in 1942. His novels have been translated into over 35 languages. Avenue of Mysteries, his fourteenth novel, is out now.

John Irving is a fiction writer and the best writer (in my humble opinion). His more famous books include The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, and A Prayer for Owen Meany. John Irving's fourteen published books include two nonfiction...

A great portrait captures the very essence of its subject, and this year, TIME continued its long legacy of storytelling with a number of compelling photographs of newsmakers, from politicians and businessmen to comedians and Oscar winners.

In the early and mid-1970s, when I was writing it, I thought my country would never be as divided again as it was then. I was wrong.

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‘This is why I have a gun,” says John Irving, between bites of expensive roast quail at the Inn at West View Farm, which is a winding ten-minute drive from his house in Dorset, Vermont. Even his agent and second wife, Janet Turnbull, eagerly aw [...]

John Irving conceived the idea of his tenth novel one night after watching the news at bedtime. A brief account and sketchily reported story about the nation’s first hand transplant grabbed his attention and tickled his narrative bone. How did the recipient lose his hand in the first place? Who was the donor? Was he a family member, a friend, a stranger to the patient? His wife, Janet, then asked the offbeat question that inspired the master satirist to dig in his heels: “What if the donor’s…

Novelist and screenwriter John Irving has published more than a dozen books – he is perhaps best known for his first novel, “The World According to Garp."