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Animal farm : a fairy story, Orwell, George

1. Author

George Orwell is the author of Animal Farm. His real name was Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell was born in Motihari, India on June 25, 1903, and was educated in England at Eton College and then went on to become a brilliant British writer. From 1922 to 1927, he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma when he returned to England he was in poor health and trying to become a writer.
Out of this experience came his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London. In 1936-1939 George joined the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. He wrote Hom