George Orwell

George Orwell, born Eric Blair, was an English author, journalist, and political writer who lived between 1903 and 1950. Orwell attended Eton and served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. George Orwell began teaching at The Hawthorns High School, a boys' school in Hayes, West London, in April 1932. From April 1932 until November 1937, he was a teacher at the school for nearly five years. Orwell published two works during this period, "Burmese Days" and "Down and Out in Paris and London." His experiences also made him one of the most outspoken opponents of what he saw to be the repressive character of British public schools.

Orwell is best known for his books "Animal Farm" and "1984". "Animal Farm" is a political parable about a community of overworked, abused farm animals that revolt against their human masters. Orwell's effect on popular and political culture continues to this day, decades after his death. Orwellian refers to totalitarian or authoritarian societal practices. Many of his neologisms, like the cold war, mind police, Room 101, memory hole, and thoughtcrime, have entered the language.

In his novel "1984", Orwell describes a dystopian future in which totalitarian government spies on its inhabitants and distorts the truth. Orwell's work was classified as social realism,' a literary genre. It has also been cited as an influence on the 'cyberpunk' genre.