George Orwell

Orwell, George (Eric Arthur Blair; 1903–50), English writer, famous principally for Animal Farm (1945), a satire on communist revolution, and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which depicts a dehumanizing totalitarian society. Orwell was also a critic and essayist. Other works include the semiautobiographical Road to Wigan Pier (1937) and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.