Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton served
with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma and worked in Britain as a private tutor
schoolteacher bookshop assistant and journalist. In 1936 Orwell went to fight for the
Republicans in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. In 1938 he was admitted into a sanatorium
and from then on was never fully fit. George Orwell died in London in 1950.
