D.J. Taylor

D. J. Taylor’s Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature 1939-1951 and On Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Biography were both published in the autumn. He tweets at @djtaylorwriter

Ageing controversialist

Best-selling novelist

Smallscreen scriptwriter

George Orwell pursued women with enthusiasm and varying degrees of success

D.J. Taylor reflects on nearly four decades of hard graft on the literary pages