George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair was born in 1903 in Motihari, India, where his father was a British official, and was brought to England as a baby. He won a scholarship to Eton, and instead of going to university he joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma in 1922. He resigned in 1927 and, wanting to understand poverty firsthand, lived among the poor in Paris and London, writing Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) under the pen name George Orwell. The Road to Wigan Pier described the lives of coal miners in northern England. In 1936 he went to fight against Franco in the Spanish Civil War, where he was shot in the throat, and his experiences of the war and of rival factions on his own side, described in Homage to Catalonia, made him a lifelong opponent of totalitarianism. During the Second World War he worked for the BBC. Animal Farm (1945), a fable about farm animals whose revolution is betrayed, and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), set in a society under constant surveillance, made him famous. He died of tuberculosis in London in 1950.

George Orwell is also an author in the library: author page and works.

Faith: An atheist who identified with a humanist outlook, though he took part in the social life of the Church of England. Source: Wikipedia