George Orwell was the pen name for Eric Arthur Blair (1903–1950), a leading English writer and journalist who exposed the evils of totalitarianism in two novels published near the end of his life: [[Animal Farm]] and [[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]. | George Orwell was the pen name for Eric Arthur Blair (1903–1950), a leading English writer and journalist who exposed the evils of totalitarianism in two novels published near the end of his life: [[Animal Farm]] and [[Nineteen Eighty-Four]]. |