Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an influential English author and journalist, c. 1940

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author 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.

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