In John Irving's 1985 novel The Cider House Rules, Dr. Larch orders his apprentice gynecologist Homer Welles to read Gray's Anatomy.

Hulce shepherded two major projects to fruition: the six-hour, two-evening stage adaptation of John Irving's The Cider House Rules, and Talking Heads, a festival of Alan Bennett's plays which won six Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award, a special Outer Critics Circle Award, and a New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award for Best Play.

* A story about a writer creating a story ( e. g. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O ' Brien, Stephen King's Misery and Secret Window, Secret Garden, Ian McEwan's Atonement, The Counterfeiters by André Gide, John Irving's The World According to Garp, Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea by Michael Morpurgo, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Oracle Night by Paul Auster, More Bears!

* Susie the Bear in John Irving's novel " Hotel New Hampshire " attended Sarah Lawrence College.

Gravesend is also briefly mentioned in John Irving's novel A Prayer for Owen Meany, noting that the fictitious town of Gravesend, New Hampshire, is named after the original Gravesend in Kent.

Cloud's orphanage in John Irving's classic novel The Cider House Rules that was adapted into a film

It has made significant appearances in at least five novels, including John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, and it continues to be pored over by historians, social scientists, and graduate students.

* Ruth Cole, the main character of John Irving's best-selling novel A Widow for One Year, attended Middlebury College.

Irving's relationship to this community was, according to its members, somewhat similar to that of John the Baptist to the early Christian Church.

* It was used as the theme song for the movie version of John Irving's novel The World According to Garp

* Homer Wells, protagonist of John Irving's novel The Cider House Rules

John O. Lyons, in an addendum to his 1962 survey " The College Novel in America: 1962-1974 " ( Critique, 1974 ), saw a tendency toward pranks and put-ons in Irving's early work ( a critical analysis Irving then dismissed as " nonsense " but now admits may have some merit ):

John Irving's third and perhaps darkest novel, The 158-Pound Marriage examines the sexual revolution-era trend of ' swinging ' ( partner-swapping ) via a glimpse into the lives of two couples in a small New England college town who enter casually into such an affair, with disastrous consequences.

In 2004, Phillips starred opposite Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger in The Door in the Floor, a film adaptation of John Irving's novel A Widow For One Year.

He also appeared in the title role of a stage adaptation of John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany by Simon Bent at London's Royal National Theatre in 2002, along with the role of Joseph Surface in Deborah Warner's 2011 The School for Scandal at the Barbican Centre.

The Wall, awkwardly based on the John Hersey novel ; ;

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

* Binary ( novel ), a 1972 novel by Michael Crichton ( writing as John Lange )

* The character of John Isidore, and his " pet hospital ", is taken from Dick's original novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, although that book contained no suggestion that the shop ran a sideline in modifying replicants.

Probably the first novel to depict cyberspace and combat within it was John M. Ford's Web of Angels ( 1980 ).

* Catullus is discussed in John Fowles's novel The French Lieutenant's Woman ( 1969 ) as being one of the foremost poets of love, sexuality and desire.

* Christian, the protagonist in John Bunyan's novel The Pilgrim's Progress

The actual term " worm "' was first used in John Brunner's 1975 novel, The Shockwave Rider.

John Sladek used the concept to humorous ends in his first novel The Reproductive System ( 1968, also titled Mechasm in some markets ), where a U. S. military research project goes out of control.

In 1950, St. John Publications produced the digest-sized, adult-oriented " picture novel " It Rhymes with Lust, a 128-page digest by pseudonymous writer " Drake Waller " ( Arnold Drake and Leslie Waller ), penciler Matt Baker and inker Ray Osrin, touted as " an original full-length novel " on its cover.

One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ) ( Elwes played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel ).

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

The Cider House Rules is a 1985 novel by John Irving.

* 1933 – U. S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.

Terror Firma seemed to contradict the events of the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel War of the Daleks by John Peel, in which an unmerged Davros is placed on trial by the Dalek Prime, a combination of the Dalek Emperor and the Dalek Supreme.

* John Cleland's early erotic novel Fanny Hill ( 1748 ) is written as a series of letters from the titular character to an unnamed recipient.

* John Updike's S. ( 1988 ) is an epistolary novel consisting of the Heroin's letters and transcribed audio recordings.

The Latin translation of his philosophical novel, entitled Philosophus Autodidactus, published by Edward Pococke the Younger in 1671, had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

The last film Coppola directed in the 90s, The Rainmaker was based on the 1995 novel of the same name by John Grisham.

* John Crowley's 2009 novel Four Freedoms is largely based on the themes of Roosevelt's speech.

* Fauna, a female character in Sweet Thursday, a novel by John Steinbeck.

Mitchell and her husband John Marsh, a copy editor by trade, edited the final version of the novel.

Diarmaid MacCulloch suggests that Cranmer's own Eucharistic theology in these years approximated most closely to that of Heinrich Bullinger ; but that he intended the Prayer Book to be acceptable to the widest range of Reformed Eucharistic belief, including the high sacramental theology of Bucer and John Calvin.

A bitter, and very public, dispute ensued between those, like Edmund Grindal and Richard Cox, who wished to preserve in exile the exact form of worship of the 1552 Prayer Book ; and those, like John Knox the pastor of the congregation, who regarded that book as still partially tainted with compromise.

John Evelyn records in his Diary taking Communion according to the 1604 Prayer Book rite:

However, when John Knox returned to Scotland in 1559, he continued to use the Form of Prayer he had created for the English exiles in Geneva, and in 1564, this supplanted the Book of Common Prayer under the title of the Book of Common Order.

Title page of the Prayer book of 1662, printed by John Baskerville in 1762.

The first Manx translation of the Book of Common Prayer was made by Bishop John Phillips of Sodor and Man in 1610.

* Prayer of St. John Gabriel Perboyre to Jesus

Saint John Cassian ( c. 360 – 435 ) presents as the formula used in Egypt for repetitive prayer, not the Jesus Prayer, but " O God, make speed to save me: O Lord, make haste to help me ".

Cranmer's death was immortalised in John Foxe's Book of Martyrs and his legacy lives on within the Church of England through the Book of Common Prayer and the Thirty-Nine Articles, an Anglican statement of faith derived from his work.

When the Methodists in America were separated from the Church of England, John Wesley himself provided a revised version of The Book of Common Prayer called the Sunday Service of the Methodists in North America.

The original music score was composed by Albert Hay Malotte, an American composer who is best known for his musical setting of The Lord's Prayer, composed in 1935, and introduced on radio that year by John Charles Thomas.

It consists of three parts: a Liturgy of the Word that includes the reading of the account of the Passion by John the Evangelist and concludes with a solemn Universal Prayer.

" Among these students was the future author John Irving, who included a quotation from Buechner in the preface of his book A Prayer for Owen Meany.

His first film for Fox was John Ford's Four Men and a Prayer.

The Prayer of Manasses was the work of John Rogers.

Daily office books that conform to the historic structure of Vespers have also been published by the Pilgrim Press ( The New Century Psalter ) and Westminster John Knox Press ( Book of Common Worship Daily Prayer ).

* John Irving – A Prayer for Owen Meany

* John Owen on The Holy Spirit-The Spirit and Prayer ( Book VII of Pneumatologia ), Diggory Press, ISBN 978-1-84685-752-2

Book of Common Worship Daily Prayer, published in 1994 by Westminster John Knox Press, includes the daily offices from the The Book of Common Worship of 1993, the liturgy of the Presbyterian Church USA.

For Desiderio's handling of " flattened relief " we must turn to his panel of Saint Jerome at Prayer in the Desert ( National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC ) or his tondo of the Meeting of Christ and John the Baptist as Youths ( Louvre Museum, Paris ).

Subsequently, in 1637, Charles attempted to introduce a version of the Book of Common Prayer, written by a group of Scottish prelates, most notably the Archbishop of St Andrews, John Spottiswood, and the Bishop of Ross, John Maxwell, and edited for printing by the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud ; it was a combination of Knox's Book of Common Order, which was in use before 1637, and English liturgy in hopes of further unifying the ( Anglican ) Church of England and the ( Presbyterian ) Church of Scotland.