Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. March 2, 1942
Birthday: March 2
I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.
source: "Why novelist John Irving's latest protagonist is a fiction writer". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 3, 2015.
topic: Worst Case Scenario, Stories, Kind