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About the Author George Orwell was born as Eric Arthur Blair. He began writing at the age of four with a poem and he had had a poem published in the local newspaper at the age of eleven. As Blair continued to mature, he found solace in the books he read, like ones by Rudyard Kipling and H.G. Wells. After completing his schooling at Eton College, he could not afford a university education, so he joined the India Imperial Police Force. Blair spent five years in Burma until he retired his post and moved back to England to pursue his writing career. His first book was about the hardships of the working poor that he had experienced while in Paris and London. Blair did not want to embarrass his family, so it was published under the name George Orwell. He wrote many books, essays, and reviews but he was most known for the books 1984 and Animal Farm.
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