Richard Blair, 80, was adopted by Orwell and his wife after they struggled to conceive naturally. The British writer is ...

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 ...

And he goes: ‘Oh, OK!’” Orwell has received some backlash over the years for comments about Jewish people in his book Down and Out in Paris and London. “Was he antisemitic?” Blair asked.