Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award: A “profoundly moving [and] definitive” portrait of George Orwell, author of 1984 and larger-than-life literary geni

"First published by Martin Secker & Warburg Limited, a part of Vintage. Vintage is an imprint of the Penguin Random House Group of companies"--Title page verso.

This account of Orwell's life is chiefly concerned with what influenced Orwell, his relations with publishers and editors, and the analysis of certain key exper

"Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey’s account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory.” --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly

Collection of forty essays written between 1968 and 2009.