George Orwell (Info:ompersonal.com.ar)

George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903  in Motihari, Bengal, India. His father, Richard  Walmesley Blair was a civil servant for the British  government. In 1904 Orwell moved with his mother  and sister to England where he remained until 1922.  He began to write at an early age, and was even  published in college periodicals, but he did not enjoy  school. Orwell failed to win a university scholarship  and without the opportunity to continue his education  he went to Burma and served in the administration of  the Indian Imperial Police from 1922 to 1927 when he  resigned in part due to his growing dislike of British  imperialism. When Orwell returned to Europe he was  in poor financial condition and worked low paying jobs  in France and England. Finally, in 1928, he decided  to become a professional writer. In 1933 he assumed  the name George Orwell by which he would become  famous. It was Animal Farm that made finally Orwell  prosperous. His other world wide success was  Nineteen Eighty-Four, which Orwell said was written  "to alter other people's idea of the kind of society they  should strive after." Sadly Orwell never lived to see  how successful it would become. He died in London on  January 21, 1950.