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 ...

Queen Esther' follows a Jewish orphan's journey from Vienna to Maine to Jerusalem, marking his first work to directly engage with Israeli history through the story of a Holocaust refugee.

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 ...

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(RNS) — I have written a great deal about antisemitism lately — for good reason. But opposite that, philosemitism refers to when gentiles love, admire and feel a sense of solidarity with the Jewish ...

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 in a new ...