Babel: John Irving

JOHN IRVING has written fifteen novels over the course of his prolific career, the majority of which have been international bestsellers. He has written some of the most acclaimed books of our time among them The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and A Widow for One Year.

Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942, his books explore themes of sexual difference and sexual intolerance, inequalities, and discrimination.