George Orwell
June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950
English writer of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, satires of totalitarian rule.
Biography
George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Blair, an English writer and journalist. He served in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, lived among the poor in Paris and London, and fought for a Republican militia in the Spanish Civil War, where he was wounded.
His experiences made him a committed democratic socialist and an enemy of totalitarianism. His fable Animal Farm (1945) and the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), about a surveillance state, gave the language terms such as 'Big Brother' and 'doublethink'. He died of tuberculosis in 1950.
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- Jun 13, 1938 – Jan 1, 1940 Independent Labour Party
