Tuesday, September 26 at 3:00 PM
Join award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar D. J. Taylor as he discusses newly available information regarding the professional and personal life of renowned author George Orwell.
Taylor is the author of two Orwellian biographies: Orwell: The Life (2003) and Orwell: The New Life—a fascinating exploration of George Orwell that presents the author anew to twenty-first-century readers.
Using previously undiscovered material, including letters to old girlfriends and colleagues, recollections from Orwell’s dwindling friends and acquaintances, and new information about his early life, Taylor discusses how the perception of Orwell has changed over the past two decades. By working to curate a clearer image of Orwell’s personal life alongside his written work, Orwell: The New Life creates a definitive portrait of this complex, driven and self-mythologizing man.
Book signing to follow.
D. J. Taylor is the author of The Lost Girls; Derby Day (nominated for the Booker Prize); and Orwell: The Life (2003), winner of the Whitbread Biography Award. D. J. is a book critic for several British newspapers and lives in London.
