George Orwell

Biographical information​

• ​Born  1903 in India, 
• Returned to England in 1911 - sent to Prep School
• Won scholarships to Wellington and Eton - was at the latter from 197-1921
• 1922 - left to serve in the Imperial Police Force as a Superintendent in Burma (modern Myanmar)
• 1928 - Resigned from the Imperial Police
• Spends the next few years living in and around the poor of Europe in places like London's East End and in Paris
• He continued to write during this time, publishing a number of works
• During the 1930s he identified himself as a Socialist
• Orwell went to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War and joined the Republican Militia.  He was seriously wounded fighting near Teruel
• In 1937 he fought against Communists who were trying to eliminate political opponents.  Orwell was forced to leave Spain - thereafter he has an intense dislike of communism, expressed in Homage to Catalonia (1938)
• During WWII he was rejected for military service.  He was in charge of the Indian service of the BBC
• In 1943 he left the BBC and became the literary editor of the Tribune - a Socialist newspaper
• 1944 he finished Animal Farm, his political allegory parodying Stalinist Russia.  It was not published until 1945 and made him famous and prosperous
• In 1948 he finishes Nineteen Eighty-Four, which is published in 1949, condemning totalitarian regimes like Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia
• He died 1950 in London, England from tuberculosis
  

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