Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author. His work is marked by a profound consciousness of social injustice, an intense opposition to totalitarianism, and a passion for clarity in language. Considered "perhaps the 20th century’s best chronicler of English culture", he wrote works in many different genres including novels, essays, polemic journalism, literary reviews, and poetry. His most famous works are the satirical novel Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). (via Wikipedia)

About George Orwell

Place of Death: London, England

Name: Blair, Eric Arthur
Orwell, George
Eric Arthur Blair

Occupation: Writer; author, journalist

Influenced: Margaret Atwood, Albert Camus, Noam Chomsky, Christopher Hitchens, Ignazio Silone, Kurt Vonnegut

Name At Birth: Eric Arthur Blair

Birthplace: Motihari, Bihar, India

Known for: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Homage to Catalonia (1938)
Animal Farm (1945)

Also Known As: George Orwell

Influenced By: James Burnham, Charles Dickens, Henry Fielding, Gustave Flaubert, James Joyce, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Koestler, Jack London, W. Somerset Maugham, Upton Sinclair, Jonathan Swift, Leo Tolstoy, Leon Trotsky, H. G. Wells, Tom Wintringham, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Émile Zola

Birth Date: Jun 25, 1903

Death Date: Jan 21, 1950