George Orwell, the inventor of the Ministry of Love and Room 101 in “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” was married for the second time in Room 65 of University College Hospital in London. His sickbed was not far ...

As the official book synopsis goes: "Big Brother… Room 101… Newspeak…" Even before his statue was unveiled outside the BBC in 2017, George Orwell was probably ...

History Hub presents a brief biography of Harriet Tubman from beginning to end, whose remarkable story impacts our lives even today. The 20th century produced some of the greatest writers, ...

George Orwell’s life is revisited in this nuanced biography which draws on new material – much of it unflattering Inward-looking: George Orwell. Photo via Getty ...

The first question to ask about any new biography of George Orwell, one of the last century’s most widely read and discussed writers, is: do we really need another? For Richard Bradford’s eccentric ...

The recent republication of Christopher Hollis’s controversial critical-biographical study of George Orwell—originally published in 1956 (by Hollis’s own firm, Hollis and Carter) and out of print for ...

Dorian Lynskey is the author of several books, including The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984 and Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World. He cohosts ...

Oneworld has signed a “one-of-a-kind” biography of George Orwell by Dr Nathan Waddell. Editorial director Cecilia Stein bought UK and Commonwealth rights to A Bright Cold Day from Matthew Marland at ...

As the title suggests, this entertaining and scholarly, if somewhat eccentric, biography examines the life and works of George Orwell through the lens of his olfactory preoccupations. Sutherland (A ...

George Orwell was a “sadistic, misogynistic, homophobic, sometimes violent” man who wrote women out of his story, according to a biographer of his wife. Anna Funder said that Orwell was a brilliant ...

Jeffrey Meyers' new biography of George Orwell, born Eric Blair (1893-1950), disproves Orwell's versification of his own fate. Orwell did quite well, thank you, in preaching upon eternal doom. He was ...