Most people these days think of George Orwell as the author of high school reading staples Animal Farm and 1984. But author Lawrence Wright says... Orwell on Writing: 'Clarity Is the Remedy' Call them ...

George Orwell was the pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair, who was born in Motihari, India, on June 25, 1903. His father, Richard Blair, was a British civil servant stationed in India. About a year after ...

George Orwell quote on truth and deceit: meaning, attribution check, practical lessons, and why honesty remains powerful in a ...

Angela Smith writes about Eileen O’Shaughnessy, George Orwell’s wife. Eileen Maud O’Shaughnessy Blair was a remarkable woman who, in her brief 39 years, helped ...

A modern literary intellectual lives and writes in constant dread—not, indeed, of public opinion in the wider sense, but of public opinion within his own group. As a rule, luckily, there is more than ...

Call them buttonhole books, the ones you urge passionately on friends, colleagues and passersby. All readers have them -- and so do writers. All Things Considered talks with writers about their ...