The following year, Orwell moved to Jura in the Inner Hebrides, and began writing Nineteen Eighty-Four. In 1945, while Orwell was working as a war reporter in Europe, his wife Eileen died suddenly. Upon leaving the BBC in 1943, he joined the left-wing magazine Tribune, wrote Animal Farm (1945) and adopted a son, Richard Blair. The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) examined working-class life in the north of England, while Homage to Catalonia (1938) described his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.Ĭlassified unfit for military service in the Second World War, Orwell worked for the BBC’s Indian Section for two years. During the 1930s, he published four novels and two more works of nonfiction.
Eric Arthur Blair was born in Motihari, north-east India on 25 June 1903, and grew up in England.Īfter graduating from Eton College, he spent five years in the Imperial Police in Burma (now Myanmar), which left him with a keen sense of political outrage and personal guilt.Ĭareer wise, George Orwell drifted between journalism, tramping and menial jobs, which informed his first book Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), published under the pseudonym George Orwell.
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