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A model life.(Literature)(George Orwell)(Brief Article)(Biography)

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From: Town & Country
Date: 20040801
Author:Cheever, Benjamin

Perhaps it's the generosity with which they expose their own weaknesses that makes writers seem like lousy role models. Frequently querulous, they douse themselves with alcohol (Fitzgerald, Faulkner), suffer mental breakdowns (Plath, Pound and Robert Lowell) and commit suicide (Woolf, Hemingway and Plath, again). Courageous in thought, the greats are often undone when they step off the page and into the world.

GEORGE ORWELL is a stunning exception to the rule. He wrote like an angel but lived like a warrior. Born in 1903 in India (his father was a British civil servant), Eric ...

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