D.J. Taylor

D. J. Taylor is a novelist, critic ,and biographer whose Orwell won the Whitbread Prize for Biography. His most recent books are The Lost Girls; Kept; Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation; Ask Alice; and Derby Day, which was nominated for the Booker Prize and was selected as a Washington Post Best Book of the Year.

Snobs, Sophisticates, and Scathing Reviews in Wartime London

D.J. Taylor on Cyril Connolly Shepherd of "High Brow" Literature

March 13, 2020 By D.J. Taylor

Orwell’s Notes on 1984: Mapping the Inspiration of a Modern Classic

"The nightmare feeling caused by the disappearance of
objective truth."

October 18, 2019 By D.J. Taylor

D.J. Taylor

Snobs, Sophisticates, and Scathing Reviews in Wartime London

D.J. Taylor on Cyril Connolly Shepherd of "High Brow" Literature

Orwell’s Notes on 1984: Mapping the Inspiration of a Modern Classic

"The nightmare feeling caused by the disappearance of objective truth."

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"The nightmare feeling caused by the disappearance of
objective truth."