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 ...

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 ...

It has been 76 years since "1984," George Orwell's warning about government control, censorship and the corruption of ...

It’s fitting that Raoul Peck’s latest documentary, “Orwell: 2+2=5,” is hitting theaters across the country during this year’s ...

Orwell: 2+2=5 is a nightmarish look at how the work of George Orwell's 1984 is becoming our reality in this important ...

A brand new documentary from director Raoul Peck and producer Alex Gibney is a timely film centered around the writings and warnings of author George Orwell. It warns the “newspeak” of authoritarian ...

's claim that Dickens is a writer "well worth stealing" from is equally true of himself. Along with Kipling, who also hailed from an Anglo-Indian family, Orwell brought several phrases into the ...

The claim: Author George Orwell said 'A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices' Invoking George Orwell’s name (often inaccurately) to ...

Emmy -winning director Alex Gibney, who is a producer of “Orwell: 2+2=5” joins The Weekend to breakdown his new documentary weaving together author George Orwell’s writings and how it strikes ...

Orwell is one of those rare masters of both fiction and nonfiction. Do you think that’s what he set out to become? He saw himself as a novelist. His earliest writing was poetry, so he wrote poems.

The goal of biography is shifting. Though society at large remains fascinated by the lives of superheroes and other phenomenal individuals, the mythology of exceptionalism perpetuated through the very ...

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 ...