What do George Orwell and Jane Smiley have in common?
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George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.
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Jane Smiley Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel "A Thousand Acres" (1991).
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Joseph W. Smiley Joseph W. Smiley was born on June 18, 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor and director, known for "The Gray Horror" (1915), "The Other Sister" (1915) and "The Living Fear" (1914), as well as many other films. He was married to the Scottish actress Lila Leslie. He died on December 2, 1945, in New York City, New York, USA.
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George Hardy (communist) George Hardy (26 July 1884, Cottingham-24 May 1966) was an English communist. He was General Secretary of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1921 and later secretary of the National Minority Movement.
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George Sawyer George Sawyer is a British comedian. He is one half of the comedy duo "Larry & George" along with Laurence Rickard. He has written for "The Armstrong and Miller Show", "The Ministry of Curious Stuff", "Me and My Monsters", "Horrible Histories", "Ed and Oucho's Excellent Inventions", "Dick and Dom's Funny Business", "Gigglebiz" and "Comedy Lab". He has also appeared in "The Ministry of Curious Stuff", "Horrible Histories", "Dick and Dom’s Funny Business", "School of Silence", Comedy Lab and "".
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George Smiley George Smiley OBE is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Smiley is a career intelligence officer with "The Circus", the British overseas intelligence agency. He is a central character in the novels "Call for the Dead", "A Murder of Quality", "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", "The Honourable Schoolboy", and "Smiley's People", and a supporting character in "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold", "The Looking Glass War", "The Secret Pilgrim" and "A Legacy of Spies".
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George (Rainbow) George is an effeminate anthropomorphic pink Hippo and a character of the popular children's television programme "Rainbow" in the 1980s, voiced by Roy Skelton and operated by Malcolm Lord, Tony Holtham and later Craig Crane.
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The Brotherhood (Nineteen Eighty-Four) The Brotherhood is a fictional organization in George Orwell's novel, "Nineteen-Eighty Four". It is mysterious in origin and operations, purportedly working to bring down The Party.
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Jon Kimche Jon Kimche (17 June 1909 – 9 March 1994) was a journalist and historian. A Swiss Jew, he arrived in England at the age of 12, becoming involved in the Independent Labour Party as a young man. In 1934–35, he worked with George Orwell in a Hampstead bookshop, Booklover’s Corner, and he later managed the ILP's bookshop at 35 Bride Street, near Ludgate Circus. As chair of the ILP Guild of Youth, he visited Barcelona in 1937, where he again met Orwell.
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The Honourable Schoolboy The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) is a spy novel by John le Carré. George Smiley must reconstruct an intelligence service in order to run a successful offensive espionage operation to save the service from being dismantled by the government. In 1977, the book won the Gold Dagger award for the best crime novel of the year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. "The Honourable Schoolboy" is the second novel in the omnibus titled either "Smiley Versus Karla" or "The Quest for Karla".
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John Osborne John James Osborne (Fulham, London, 12 December 1929 – 24 December 1994) was an English playwright, screenwriter and actor, known for his excoriating prose and intense critical stance towards established social and political norms. The success of his 1956 play "Look Back in Anger" transformed English theatre.
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Jane Goodall Dame Jane Morris Goodall {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( ; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace. Considered to be the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania in 1960. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. She has served on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project since its founding in 1996.
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Julian Orde Julian Orde (31 December 1917 – 1974) was a female English poet, writer and actor.
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Love, Life and Laughter (1934 film) Love, Life and Laughter is a 1934 British comedy drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Gracie Fields, John Loder and Ivor Barnard.
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Life Without George Life Without George was a BBC comedy series written by Penny Croft and Val Hudson and starring Simon Cadell and Carol Royle, centred on a young woman's struggle to adapt to life after being left by her partner (the titular George). The series ran from 12 March 1987 to 4 May 1989. The theme tune was written and performed by the show's writer Penny Croft.
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Two Minutes Hate The Two Minutes Hate, from George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four", is a daily period in which Party members of the society of Oceania must watch a film depicting the Party's enemies (notably Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers) and express their hatred for them for exactly two minutes.
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Peter Davison (professor) Peter Hobley Davison (born 1926), OBE, Ph.D., D.Litt, Hon. D. Arts, is Research Professor of English at De Montfort University, Leicester, and Emeritus Professor of English at Glyndŵr University. Davison is considered an authority on the life and works of George Orwell.
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Jane Downs Jane M. Downs (22 January 1935 – 20 May 2015) was an English actress.
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Moo (novel) Moo is a 1995 novel by Jane Smiley. Its setting is a large university, known familiarly as "Moo U" because of its large agricultural college, in the American Midwest. The novel is a satire that uses a sprawling narrative style, following the lives of dozens of characters over the course of the 1989-1990 academic year.
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George Barnsby George J. Barnsby (  January 1919 –11 April 2010) was an English author and Socialist scholar.
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Orwell (video game) Orwell is a simulation video game in which the player assumes the role of a state operative and monitors surveillance sources to find national security threats. The game was released by indie developer Osmotic as a weekly, five-part serial for Windows beginning on October 20, 2016.
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Orwell Award The NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language (the Orwell Award for short), "established in 1975 and given by the National Council of Teachers of English Public Language Award Committee, recognizes writers who have made outstanding contributions to the critical analysis of public discourse."