Most people these days think of George Orwell as the author of high school reading staples Animal Farm and 1984. But author Lawrence Wright says... Orwell on Writing: 'Clarity Is the Remedy' Call them ...

George Orwell was the pseudonym for Eric Arthur Blair, who was born in Motihari, India, on June 25, 1903. His father, Richard Blair, was a British civil servant stationed in India. About a year after ...

In writing he did before his most famous novels, Orwell focused primarily on other themes including work, poverty, anti-imperialism and democratic socialism. zoom-zoom, iStock/Getty Images Plus George ...

George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, drew from his experiences with inequality and authority to craft powerful allegories. His works, like "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four," warn against ...

Call them buttonhole books, the ones you urge passionately on friends, colleagues and passersby. All readers have them -- and so do writers. All Things Considered talks with writers about their ...