George Orwell, originally born as Eric Arthur Blair, was an English novelist and journalist. His work is marked by keen intelligence and wit, a profound awareness of social injustice, an intense, revolutionary opposition to totalitarianism, a passion for clarity in language and a belief in democratic socialism. Heir to a family of slave plantation owners and a colonial police officer in India, he also wrote up a list of people he suspected were communists and gave it to the British government. (Source.)
George Orwell
Author details
- Aliases:
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Eric Arthur Blair
- Born:
- June 24, 1903
- Died:
- Jan. 20, 1950
