Seven decades on from his death, George Orwell is alive and well in publishing. Last year alone saw a slew of new releases about the man and his fictive worlds.

Love and truth, truth and fiction, Eric Blair and George Orwell. Blair created Orwell to be the conscience of his age, and Orwell became the conscience of ours.

In “Burma Sahib,” the renowned novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux imagines the life of young Eric Blair (the future George Orwell) when he was a novice police officer in colonial Burma.At ...

George Orwell's work and life story are well known. A new book unearths details about his wife, Eileen Blair, who helped publish his work and died at 39.

George Orwell’s work and life story are well known. A new book unearths details about his wife, Eileen Blair, who helped publish his work and died at 39. (Associated Press) ...

Orwell, the pen name for Eric Arthur Blair, is known for the dystopian political novels as "Animal Farm" and "1984," published the year before his death, in 1950. Admirers cite the British author ...

George Orwell Wikimedia Commons. In 1947, Eric Arthur Blair took a short break from writing his novel, 1984, which he would publish two years later under his pseudonym, George Orwell. His novel, a ...

I n 1996, a US studio called MediaX began working on a videogame inspired by George Orwell's 1984. It was called Big Brother, and you played a member of the resistance called Eric Blair (which was ...

George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903, in India. He was the son of a British colonial civil servant and was educated in England, according to the BBC.