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George Orwell George Orwell was the pen name of English author Eric Blair. He was born in 1903 in Bengal, India; He was born to Robert Blair and his wife whose name is unknown to this day. He was the second of three children. He was born to a poor family and did well to get by every month. During Orwell’s life he did many things other than be an author. He was a police officer, as young as 21, then at 27 he became a full time writer in Paris. Then at 29 he returned to London penniless and worked at a series of low-paying jobs. Then from 29-35 He joined the militia of the Partido Obrero de Unification Marxista (Poum), and fought in the Spanish Civil War. Then in 1939 at the outbreak of WWll he joined the Indian service of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) as an overseas broadcaster. In 1941-43 he became a columnist for the Partisan Review, 1941; traveled to France, Germany, and Austria as a reporter at the end of WWll. When Orwell was 27 he became interested in writing about his curiosity in British imperialism. His first book Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) was about his hard experiences trying to make it as an author. Orwell only won one award why he was alive for his writings that award was the first a