For 10 points, name this author of The Cider House Rules, The World
In one of this author's novels, the protagonist realizes who Alice Somerset is after reading the first chapter of Followed Home from the Flying Food Circus, and a woman obsessed with the phrase "Come hither boys, and become men" is attracted to Eddie. In addition to describing Maria in A Widow For One Year, he wrote of Siggy Javotnik's plan to empty the animals from the Heitzinger Zoo in (*) Setting Free the Bears. Wilbur Larch provides abortions and runs an orphanage, and a wrestling coach writes The Pension Grillparzer, in two of his other novels. For 10 points, name this author of The Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp, and A Prayer for Owen Meany.
In one of this author's novels, the protagonist realizes who Alice Somerset is after reading the first chapter of Followed Home from the Flying Food Circus, and a woman obsessed with the phrase "Come hither boys, and become men" is attracted to Eddie.
John {Irving}