Of course there is no real George Orwell – it was the pen name of Eric Blair – but he was a writer and political commentator who is very hard to pin down. Ever since his early death in 1950 ...
Richard Blair was speaking on the 120th anniversary of the writer's birth. He was adopted by Eric Blair - better known by his pen name of George Orwell. Orwell's novel 1984 was the origin of the ...
Orwell, real name Eric Blair, penned classics such as Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Animal Farm (1945) and Down and Out in Paris and London (1933). Books that are still widely read and highly ...