Eric was born on 25 June 1903, the son of Richard Walmesley Blair and Ida Mabel Limouzin, at Motihari, Bengal, India. He attended a small Anglican convent school in Henley-on-Thames, before moving on to St. Cyprian's preparatory school, at Eastbourne, Sussex.. He went on to Eton College with a scholarship. In 1921, Eric joined the Burma police, serving until he resigned in 1927, determined to be a writer. Eric, better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a keen English author and journalist. He went to fight in the Spanish civil war, and was seriously wounded, returning to England in June 1937. In 1938 he contracted tuberculosis in one lung, and spent some time in a sanatorium Noted as a novelist, critic, political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. He is best known for two novels critical of totalitarianism in general, and Stalinism in particular: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both were written and published towards the end of his life.
