About The Author

Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) wrote under the pen name George Orwell to avoid embarrassing his family. He is the author of six novels and three works of nonfiction, including his Catalonia memoir. He also wrote hundreds of essays and was an outspoken social critic who opposed totalitarianism and promoted democratic socialism. His seminal works, “Animal Farm” (1945) and “1984” (1948), remain stark warnings of how governments and political parties can manipulate the public with Orwellian fallacies to obfuscate language and meaning. It is from Orwell that we have the neologisms “Big Brother,” “thought police,” and “doublethink,” among others, including “Orwellian.”