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                                                                    Biography of George orwell

Born origninally into the name "Eric Blair" in 1903. He was born in Motihari, Benegal, Which was at the time a British colony. At the age of seven Blair recieved a scholarship to one of the most well known prepatory schools in England at the time, and worked hard to earn scholarships to Wellington and Eton colleges.

        After one term at Wellington, he moved to Eton, and stayed there from 1917-1921. at Eton he studied under another well known writer,Aldous Huxley, Presumably where he first came to love writing. He hated totalitarianism and Communism, yet he himself was a socialist. So in 1936 he served on the independent labor party in the Spanish civil war. Orwell returned to England in 1937 and picked up animal husbandry as a hobby/ part time job aside from writing. In 1938 he was confined to Preston Hall Sanatorium for treatment of tuberculosis.
            When World War II came around Orwell applied to the forces but deemed unfit for any military service. in 1941 he then started taking part in several radio broadcasts for the BBC, and joined the home guard in order to occupy some of his new found free time. in 1945 his second best selling work, Animal Farm, was published. Although always not in perfect health from 1947 onward Orwell was proclaimed seriously ill, and struggled through writing 1984. Once completed , Orwell spent the rest of his days being visited by old acquaintances in University college Hospital in London. In 1950, after a long period of slow decline an artery burst in his lungs, killing him at age 46.