A biography of the wife of George Orwell is to be corrected after complaints were made by children of the writer's friends. Wifedom: Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life, which tells of the struggles of ...

The biography of the wife of George Orwell is to be corrected after children of the 1984 author’s friends complained about inaccuracies. A book that focused on the life of Eileen O’Shaughnessy ...

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 ...

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 ...

FEW WRITERS have achieved the cult status of George Orwell. He is so much a part of the collective imagination that John Rodden, an Orwell scholar, goes so far as to call him “the most important ...

INSIDE GEORGE ORWELL: A Biography Gordon Bowker, . . Palgrave, $35 (512pp) ISBN 978-0-312-23841-4 ...

DJ Taylor published Orwell: The Lifein 2003. Now he offers a new biography that draws upon new materials that have surfaced since (Orwell’s letters to women he was infatuated with, for instance).

Although the book is not a biography of George Orwell, Solnit does follow his career, includes plenty of biographical details, pays close attention to his writing, and speculates about his psychology.

Eileen married Orwell in 1936, and nine years later, at 39, she became ill with cancer. Demoralized by illness and by Orwell’s infidelities, nastiness and neglect (according to Funder), she ...

George Orwell too was known to roam, which might be one reason why Solnit’s latest book, “Orwell’s Roses,” is, from its beautiful cover to its impassioned coda, one of her very best.

Winston Churchill and George Orwell were very different men, but a new biography argues that they were twin pillars fighting for democratic freedom.