Question: What do George Orwell and Jane Smiley have in common?

Context articles: George Orwell: A Life in Pictures
Jane Smiley
Tavis Smiley
George Orwell bibliography
Animal Farm
Barnhill, Jura
Inez Holden
George Orwell
Inside the Whale
Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell: A Life in Pictures is a 2003 BBC Television docudrama telling the life story of the British author George Orwell.
 Chris Langham plays the part of Orwell.
 No surviving sound recordings or video of the real George Orwell have been found.
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).
Tavis Smiley ( ; born September 13, 1964) is an American talk show host and author.
 Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana.
 After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles.
 Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991 and, starting in 1996, he hosted the talk show "BET Talk" (later renamed "BET Tonight") on Black Entertainment Television (BET).
 After Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC News in 2001, BET declined to renew his contract that year.
 Smiley then began hosting "The Tavis Smiley Show" on National Public Radio (NPR) (2002–04) and currently hosts "Tavis Smiley" on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on weekdays and "The Tavis Smiley Show" on Public Radio International (PRI).
 From 2010 to 2013, Smiley and Cornel West joined forces to host their own radio talk show, "Smiley & West".
 They were featured together interviewing musician Bill Withers in the 2009 documentary film "Still Bill".
 He is the new host of "Tavis Talks" on BlogTalkRadio's Tavis Smiley Network.
The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, novels and non-fiction books written by the British writer Eric Blair (1903–50), either under his own name or, more usually, under his pen name George Orwell.
 Orwell was a prolific writer on topics related to contemporary English society and literary criticism, whom the British newsweekly "The Economist" in 2008 declared "perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture."
 His non-fiction cultural and political criticism constitutes the majority of his work, but Orwell also wrote in several genres of fictional literature.
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945.
 According to Orwell, the book reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union.
 Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the Spanish Civil War.
 The Soviet Union, he believed, had become a brutal dictatorship, built upon a cult of personality and enforced by a reign of terror.
 In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described "Animal Farm" as a satirical tale against Stalin (""un conte satirique contre Staline""), and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), wrote that "Animal Farm" was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole".
Barnhill is a farmhouse situated at grid reference [ NR705970] in the north of the island of Jura in the Scottish Hebrides.
 It stands on the site of a larger 15th Century settlement called Cnoc an t-Sabhail; the English name Barnhill having been in use since the early twentieth century.
 The house was the home of the English essayist and novelist George Orwell, who lived there intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1950, and who completed his novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" while living there.
 Barnhill is a site of interest for many who are familiar with the life and writing of George Orwell.
Beatrice Inez Lisette (Paget) Holden (21 November 1903- 30 May 1974) was a British writer and Bohemian social figure and journalist, also known for her association with George Orwell.
 Born at Wellesbourne, Warwickshire to Wilfred Millington Holden (of the family listed in Burke's Landed Gentry 1952 edition as 'Holden of Bromson', a branch of the family of 'Holden of Hawton and Sibdon'; he served as a Lieutenant in the Bihar Light Horse and 15th Hussars) and Beatrice Mary Byng Paget (the daughter of Herbert Byng Paget, of Darley House, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, of the family listed in Burke's Landed Gentry as 'Paget of Loughborough'), with an elder brother, Wilfred Herbert, born in 1902, she was a cousin of the twins Celia Mary and Mamaine, who became Arthur Koestler's second wife.
 Her first memory was her father shooting at- and missing- her mother; their relationship was a fraught one, as was Holden's own relationship with her mother, who was considered to be the second best horsewoman in England.
 She kept fifteen chargers, but although her extravagant nature allowed her to visit the Ritz when in London, her daughter did not benefit from it.
 According to Bluemel (in 'George Orwell and the Radical Eccentrics', which devotes considerable attention to Holden), Holden's status as 'a dropout from the gentry class who worked as both factory hand and intellectual' is a contributing factor in the value of her work both generally speaking and for feminist scholars.
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.
"Inside the Whale" is an essay in three parts written by George Orwell in 1940.
 It is primarily a review of "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller with Orwell discursing more widely over English literature in the 1920s and 1930s.
 The biblical story of Jonah and the whale is used as a metaphor for accepting experience without seeking to change it, Jonah inside the whale being comfortably protected from the problems of the outside world.
 It was published, alongside two other pieces by Orwell, 11 March 1940 by Gollancz in Orwell's first collection of essays, "Inside the Whale and Other Essays".
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's personal account of his experiences and observations in the Spanish Civil War.
 The first edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1938.
 The book was not published in the United States until February 1952, when it appeared with an influential preface by Lionel Trilling.
 The only translation published in Orwell's lifetime was into Italian, in December 1948.
 A French translation by Yvonne Davet—with whom Orwell corresponded, commenting on her translation and providing explanatory notes—in 1938–39, was not published until five years after Orwell's death.