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Author Profile
Name: George Orwell (pseudonymof Eric Arthur Blair).
Nationality: British
Born: Motihari, Bengal, India25th June 1903. Brought to England 1904.
Education: St. Cyprian's atEastbourne, followed by a scholarship ar Eton.
Family: Married 1)Eileen O'Shaughnessy1936 (died 1945), 2)Sonia Mary Brownwell 1945.
Career:
1922 - 1923 Imperial Indian Police trainingSchool.
1923 - 1927 Served inthe Imperial Indian Police Force at various locations.
1927 Resigned from Imperial Indian PoliceForce and returned to London to live.
1928 - 1929 Lived inParis.
1930 Worked as a tutor in Southwold, Suffolk.
1930 - 1931 Lived in London.
1932 - 1933 Headmaster at the Hawthorns,Hayes Middlesex and teacher at Fray's College,Uxbridge.
1934 - 1936 Worked at the Booklovers' CornerBookshop.
1936 - 1940 Shopkeeper, Wallingford, Hertfordshire.
1937 Served in the UnitedMarxist Workers' Party militia in Catalonia. Wounded in action.
1941 - 1943 Talks producer in the EmpireDept., BBC, London.
Also a Sergeant of the Home Guard.
1935 - 1936 Starts career as a Freelancewriter. Reviewer for 'New English Weekly'.
1940 - 1941 'Time and Tide' Magazine.
1940 - 1947 'Tribune'.(Literary Editor 1943 - 1945).
1940 - 1949 'Horizon' London Columnist.
1941 - 1946 Contributor to 'Partisan Review'.
1942 - 1949 Regular contributor to 'The Observer'.(War Correspondent 1945).
1943 - 1946 Columnist for 'The ManchesterEvening News'.
1946 - 1947 Lived on Jura, Hebrides Islands,Scotland.
Literary Works: Six novels,of which the most popular were Animal Farm (published 1945)and 'NineteenEighty Four' (published in 1949). He also wrote large amounts of autobiography,journalism and political essays.
Died: 21 January 1951.