George Orwell

George Orwell was born as Eric Arthur Blair, on the 25th of June 1903.

He was the son of a British Civil Servant, he was also educated in England, at Eton. After his education he went on to join the Imperial Police in Burma, which was a British Colony at the time.

He remained in this job until 1927. He then resigned as he wanted to pursue the career of a writer. The following year he moved to Paris.

The plan didn't work quite as Orwell wanted and was forced to work menial jobs. On the bright side though he did get to write a book: 'Down and Out in Paris', it was just before the publication of this book in 1933 that Eric became George. The following year he got another book in the world, 'Burmese Days'.

Orwell used to be an anarchist in the 1920, then however he became a socialist. He was commisioned in 1936 to write about poverty in Northern England with unemployed miners. The book was called: 'The road to Wigan Pier'

Later on in that year he went to Spain to fight with the republican against Franco's Nationalists. He fled for his life when Soviet-backed communists started to conquer socialists. Orwell turned into a Life-Long Anti-Stalinist here.

Between 1941 and 1943 he worked for the BBC, working on Propoganda. Afterwards, he became the literay editor of the Tribune, a left-wing weekly magazine.

By this time he had beome a well-known journalist writing articles and books.

He published his famous book 'Animal Farm' in 1945. This made Orwell very well known and he was financially comfortable in his life for the first time. He published his other famous book 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' was published four years afterwards.

Unfortunately by this time George Orwell's health was deteriorating and he died of tuberculosis on 21st January 1950.