Author

Books by George Orwell

George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (1903–1950), an English novelist, essayist, and critic. Born in India and educated at Eton, he worked as a colonial policeman in Burma before turning to writing. His major works include Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier, Animal Farm, and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's nonfiction and essays are collected in several volumes and remain among the most widely read political prose in the English language. He died of tuberculosis in 1950 at the age of 46.