AKA Eric Arthur Blair

Born: 25-Jun-1903
Birthplace: Motihari, Bengal, India
Died: 21-Jan-1950
Location of death: London
Cause of death: Tuberculosis
Remains: Buried, All Saints Church, Sutton Courtenay, England

Gender: Male
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Author of 1984 and Animal Farm

Military service: POUM (Spanish Civil War, infantry)

Father: Richard Blair
Mother: Ida
Sister: Marjorie (older)
Sister: Avril (younger)
Wife: Eileen O'Shaughnessy (m. 1936, d. 1945)
Son: Richard Horatio Blair (adopted, b. May-1944)
Wife: Sonia Brownell (m. 1949)

    High School: St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, Sussex
    High School: Eton College (1917-21)

    Shot: Battle Spain (May-1937)

Is the subject of books:
The Unknown Orwell, 1972, BY: Peter Stansky and William Abrahams
Orwell: The Transformation, 1979, BY: Peter Stansky and William Abrahams
George Orwell: A Life, 1980, BY: Bernard Crick
Orwell, 1991, BY: Michael Shelden
Inside George Orwell: A Biography, 2003, BY: Gordon Bowker
Orwell: The Life, D. J. Taylor

Author of books:
Down and Out in Paris and London (1933, novel)
Burmese Days (1934, novel)
A Clergyman's Daughter (1935, novel)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936, novel)
The Road to Wigan Pier (1937, nonfiction)
Homage to Catalonia (1938, memoir)
Coming Up For Air (1939)
The Lion and the Unicorn (1941, nonfiction)
Animal Farm (1945, novel)
1984 (1949, novel)

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