George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June, 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a radical English journalist, political essayist and novelist who wrote under the pseudonym George Orwell. His writing is marked by concise descriptions of social conditions and events and a contempt for all type of authority. He is most famous for two novel critical of totalitarianism, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Animal Farm (which is a direct parody of Stalinism). Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903 to British parents in Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India. His father, Richard Walmesley Blair, worked in the Opium Department of the Civil Service. His mother, Ida Mabel Blair (née Limouzin), had a French father who was involved in speculative ventures in Burma where she grew up. She took her son Eric to England when he was one year old and apart from a three-month visit to England in 1907 Richard Blair did not enter his son's life until Eric was nine years old. Eric had two sisters; Marjorie, five years older, and... full article at wikipedia