By Philippa TracyWho was Eileen O’Shaughnessy? She is perhaps better known as the first wife of writer George Orwell (Eric Blair). In a particularly burdensome moment of what she calls “a motherload ...

A documentary by the director of films on James Baldwin and Karl Marx explores the life of George Orwell and the enduring ...

Even a fellow Republican, Representative Don Bacon of Nebraska, couldn’t resist: “Putin started this war,” he posted on X, adding, “I don’t accept George Orwell’s doublethink.” ...

Orwell has received some backlash over the years for comments about Jewish people in his book Down and Out in Paris and London. “Was he antisemitic?” Blair asked. “From Down and Out in Paris ...

George Orwell’s son has expressed concern over some of his late father’s work. Richard Blair, 80, was adopted by Orwell and his wife after they struggled to conceive naturally. The British writer is ...

Royal Mint The United Kingdom’s Royal Mint is releasing a new coin honoring George Orwell on the 75th anniversary of his death. The £2 (roughly $2.45) piece pays homage to Nineteen Eighty-Four ...

George Orwell ... and fans of Orwell’s work, paying tribute to one of the most world-renowned authors of the 20th century.” Author, journalist and visionary thinker Eric Blair, who wrote ...

blogging his way to international recognition for his unique historical insights into author George Orwell. Orwell, real name Eric Blair, penned classics such as Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949 ...

George Orwell’s father, Richard Walmesley Blair, was a civil servant ... By 1949, an increasingly ailing Orwell had struck up a new relationship with Sonia Brownell, to whom he became engaged while ...

Journalism and Letters of George Orwell," which first published in 1968 and was co-edited by Sonia Orwell — his wife — and Ian Angus. The quote in question appeared on page 515 of that book ...

Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche are obvious candidates. But any list like this has to include George Orwell, the English essayist and the author of two of the most famous political novels of the ...