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 ...

The author of such portentous works as Animal Farm and 1984 may have been influenced by his own physical ailments, such as tuberculosis and infertility, in writing his gloomy portrayals of the future, ...

Add Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn to the list of American politicians who need a George Orwell refresher. Chances are, you’ve seen Orwell’s name thrown around a lot in the past year on social media ...

LEE WENGRAF looks at the life and writing of George Orwell on the 100th anniversary of his birth. BIG BROTHER, double-think, thought police: almost everyone is familiar with the bleak portrait of a ...

Essayist, cultural critic and activist Rebecca Solnit’s two-dozen-plus books have wandered all over the map: paeans to walking and roaming off course (“Wanderlust” and “A Field Guide to Getting Lost”) ...

LONDON — Rejection is a rite of passage that every writer, even some of the greatest — like George Orwell — has experienced. Ernest Hemingway was told his writing was “tedious and offensive” by one ...

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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 ...