Author

Books by George Orwell

George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (1903–1950), a British author and journalist best known for Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). He worked as a colonial police officer in Burma, fought in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side, and was a broadcaster for the BBC during the Second World War. His experiences with authoritarian systems — colonial, fascist, and Stalinist — formed the basis of his political thinking. He died of tuberculosis at forty-six, shortly after completing 1984. His essays, including "Politics and the English Language," remain required reading in political philosophy.