Eric Arthur Blair, known as George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, sensitivity to social injustice and an objection to all forms totalitarianism, together with a  steadfast commitment to democratic socialism.
Early life
Orwell was born on the 25th of June, 1903 in Motihari, in British India. His mother brought Eric and his older sister Marjorie to England roughly a year after his birth and settled in Henley-on-Thames. Due to the fact that his father remained in India and rarely visited, George Orwell and his father failed to ever form a strong bond.
Orwell was later sent to boarding school, which he hated and here he first experienced England’s class system. On a partial scholarship, Orwell noticed that the school treated richer students with higher regard than the poorer ones. Subsequently he won  scholarships to Wellington College and Eton College to further his studies. Since his family couldn’t pay for his university education, Orwell joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, which at the time was a British colony. He resigned in 1927 and decided to become a writer.
Career
Orwell is renowned for his literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. He gained world wide acknowledgement for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four written in 1949 and the allegorical novella Animal Farm written in 1945 .