Orwell biography book

George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, and critic most famous for his novels Animal Farm () and Nineteen Eighty-Four ().

The following biography was written by D.J.

Taylor. Taylor is an author, journalist and critic. His biography, Orwell: The Life won the Whitbread Biography Award. His new biography, Orwell: The New Life was published in D.J. Taylor is a member of the Orwell Council.

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Orwell biography book

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Orwell: A (Brief) Life, by D.J. Taylor

GEORGE ORWELL, the pen-name of Eric Arthur Blair, was born on 25 June in Motihari, Bengal, where his father, Richard Walmesley Blair, was working as an Opium Agent in the Indian Civil Service, into what – with the uncanny precision he brought to all social judgments – he described as ‘the lower-upper-middle classes’.

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