Laura Beers is a historian at American University and the author of a new book called Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings ...

Shortly before he died George Orwell asked that no one write his biography. Though much of his writing, even fiction, had been autobiographical, he valued privacy most of all the English virtues ...

Let me propose the following little outline for our discussion. Let’s begin with a little bio of George Orwell. Let’s go into what he believed and then let us play that wonderful parlor game ...

argumentative – not the frustrated put-upon housewife of one recent biography. Reading her last letter to Orwell from hospital, hours before she died on the operating table, is moving ...

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 ...

Presenter of Radio 4's Front Row, Mark Lawson, considers George Orwell's time at the BBC. John Simpson and Hilary Spurling discuss George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. Duration: 28:00 'It's like ...