(1903-1950) George Orwell was the pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, an English author and journalist. He is well known for his novels Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Animal Farm (1945) and Homage to Catalonia (1938), this one inspired in his experience as a volunteer in the Republican band during the Spanish Civil war. Orwell was a firm believer in democratic socialism and a big enemy of totalitarism.

His bibliography also includes: Burmese Days (1934), A Clergyman's Daughter (1935), Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Coming Up for Air (1939), Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) and The Road to Wigan Pier (1937).

He married Eileen O'Shaughnessy, and after she died during a hysterectomy, he married again Sonia Brownell. Orwell requested in his will not to write a biography about him, and his wife Sonia took care about that: she refused all the offers that she received and didn't allow anybody to write it.