Born: June 25, 1903
Died: January 21, 1950
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| Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language, and a belief in democratic socialism.
In addition to his literary career Orwell served as a police officer with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922-1927 and fought with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War from 1936-1937.
Between 1941 and 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC. In 1943, he became literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly left-wing magazine. He was a prolific polemical journalist, article writer, literary critic, reviewer, poet, and writer of fiction, and, considered perhaps the twentieth century's best chronicler of English culture.
Orwell's influence on contemporary culture, popular and political, continues decades after his death. Several of his neologisms, along with the term "Orwellian" — now a byword for any oppressive or manipulative social phenomenon opposed to a free society — have entered the vernacular.
Books by George Orwell:
 | "1984"
First published in 1949
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 | "Why I Write"
First published in 1946
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 | "Books v. Cigarettes"
First published in 1946
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 | "Animal Farm"
First published in 1945
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 | "Coming Up for Air"
First published in 1939
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 | "Homage to Catalonia"
First published in 1938
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 | "Burmese Days"
First published in 1934
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