The novelist John Irving is famous for telling stories set in his native New England and in Austria, the site of a pivotal ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In John Irving's next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud's, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous ...

Simon & Schuster announced Thursday that Irving's “Queen Esther” will be published Nov. 4. His novel will bring back Dr. Wilbur Larch from “The Cider House Rules,” but otherwise features a ...