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).

Still in her early twenties, Sonia Brownell next gravitated into the circle of young women working for Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine. (Connolly, it was said by Anthony Powell, was the mirror ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984, by the British music critic Dorian Lynskey, makes a rich and compelling case for the novel as the summation of Orwell’s entire ...