George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair, from England. Blair was born in Bengal in 1903. He went to school in the highly revered Eton. After that he then served in the Indian Imperial Pulice in Burma. He returned to Europe to earn a living as a writer, mostly novels and essays. He was mostly a political writer, who concentrated on the new government of his time: Totalitarianism. He wrote with contempt and disdain towards Totalitarian ruling. Orwell wrote most of his works on the terror of totalitarianism, including Animal Farm.This hatred led him to then move on to serve with the Loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Although he didn't like Communism, he was considered a Socialist. He died at 47 from a lung ailment.

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Above, Eric Blair (George Orwell, 1903-1947)