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.

To this day he has warm childhood memories of his father Eric Blair, better known as George Orwell. 'He was a hands-on parent with me,' Richard Blair recalled this week.

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.

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. (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 ...

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.

Orwell was born Eric Blair in June 1903 in the UK. His suspicion of authority was present in his youth, when he sent a dead ...

English writer George Orwell, whose real name was Eric Arthur Blair, was born in India at the turn of the 20th Century and went on to write commentary on the threat of totalitarianism, democratic ...