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Eric Arthur Blair was the birth name of the writer with the pen name
George Orwell
. Blair was born in Bengal,
India
in 1903 and died in 1950. His family was "Lower-Upper-Middle-Class" and he attended
Eton
on scholarship. This earned him the scorn of monied members, who were fond of reminding him that he was a financial parasite. He joined the
Indian
Imperial Police instead of going to university, and later wrote about the experience in
Burmese Days
, an indictment of imperialism.
In 1937 he fought in
Spain
against the
Fascists
, and saw the ugly face of
Stalinism
. The war, and his experiences with imperialism, convinced him that
England
needed
socialism
to combat the tendancies of
Totalitarianism
.
He chose the pen name
George Orwell
after concern that his writing (e.g.
Down and Out in Paris and London
) would embarass his family's name. His most famous book,
1984
, was written in 1948, two years before his death from
tuberculosis
in 1950.
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