Writers, activists and politicians on the books they turn to for wisdom and perspective – and to restore their faith in human nature ...

Is "Wifedom" fiction? Nonfiction? Yes. It's almost impossible to characterize Anna Funder's book about Eileen Orwell, known — if she's thought of at all — as "wife of George Orwell." But this dazzling ...

Funder, who is on a promotional tour in Britain, continued her domination of awards, having picked up several lead-up prizes for her fictional account of the lives of anti-Hitler activists in pre-war ...

As a former human rights lawyer and the author of non-fiction bestseller "Stasiland" about life in communist East Germany, Australian author Anna Funder knows a thing or two about digging deep to ...

Growing up in Melbourne, Australia, Anna Funder wanted to be a writer from the time she was 6 years old. “We went to live in Paris, and I started school there. I had to learn French fast, and I ...

“They are like hermit crabs who outgrow one shell and need to leave it before they get trapped inside, emerging for a moment, shell-less and pink, vulnerable to predators of every stripe”. These words ...

WIFEDOM: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Life. By Anna Funder. Knopf. 464 pages. $32. Throughout my reading life, I have returned to George Orwell’s work for the pleasure and power of his words and views on ...

University of Queensland provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. If ever there was a doubt that bookmakers (as in bet-takers, not publishers) are the clear-eyed prophets of the future, it ...

Some writers have to inflate their subject to make it worthy of them. Others take what I call the wrong-end-of-the-binoculars approach: They shrink what they’re talking about so they can seem superior ...

The goal of biography is shifting. Though society at large remains fascinated by the lives of superheroes and other phenomenal individuals, the mythology of exceptionalism perpetuated through the very ...