George Orwell

(1903-1950)-pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair

George Orwell is a Political Author, Journalist, Essayist, Critic and English novelist. He wrote ANIMAL FARM in 1945 and NINETEEN EIGHT-FOUR in 1949. He was born in Motihari, Bengal, India. George was the second child of Richard Walmesley Blair and Ida Mabel Limonzin. In 1904, he moved with his mother and sister to England and he then attended Eton. In college periodicals was where his first writings were published. Also, he attended St Cyprian's Preparatory School in Easbourne. This was a bitter and unhappy time for Orwell becasue his book SUCH, SUCH WERE THE JOYS wasnt published until 1968 because of fear of libel action.

When Orwell was 17, he experienced as an "amateur tramp" in Plymouth, where he was stranded without much money. He later went to Burma t0 serve in the Indian Imperial Police (1922-27) as an assistant superintendent because he failed to recive a scholarship to university. Orwell's dislike of imperial rule led to the book SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT (1950)

George Orwell returned to where his aunt lived in England and ended up living as a tramp and beggar (1928-29). Material for DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON (1933) was inspired by his time in poverty.

During world war 2, Orwell served as a sergent in the home guard and worked for the BBC as a journalist (1943-1945).

Orwell lived mostly on the remote island of Jura, in the western isles of Scotland. He had adopted a boy. His wife then died in 1945, but in 1949 he married a lady named Sonia Brownell. Sadly their marriage only lasted 3 months before Orwell died from tuberculosis in London University Hospital on January 21, 1950.(Soon after the publication of NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR)