George Orwell

George Orwell was the pseudonym of the English writer Eric Arthur Blair. Blair was born on June 25, 1903 in Mothari, Bengal to Richard Walmesley Blair, a Government of India employee in the Opium Department, and Ida Mabel Limouzin. In 1904, Ida moved with Eric and his older sister Marjorie back to Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, to bring the children up there according to Anglo-Indian custom. Richard Blair stayed in India. In 1908 Ida sent Eric to a small Anglican …

…There, he began Nineteen Eighty-Four, and grew ill. In December 1947, Orwell entered Hairmyres Hospital, near Glasgow. He returned to Jura in July 1948. In January 1949, he entered a sanatorium in Cranham, Gloucestershire. Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in June and was instantly a success. In September, Orwell was admitted to University College Hospital in London. He married Sonia Brownell on October 13. Orwell died on January 21, 1950 and was buried at the Church of All Saints, Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire.