Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 equals 4
― Famous line in 1984.
Eric Arthur Blair or more commonly known under his pen name George Orwell was a Democratic Socialist British Autor, known for anti-totalitarian books, who became famous through the dystopian books Animal Farm and 1984. He also wrote non-fictional books like Homage to Catalonia which expresses his views and experiences about the Spanish civil war as a member of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification. The Times considered him one of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"
Geroge Orwell was born on 25 June in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal, British India, his parents were Ida Mabel Blair and Richard Walmesley Blair.
He married Eileen O'Shaughnessy in 1936 who died in 1945, together they adopted Richard Blair, after Eileen's death Orwell married Sonia Brownell in 1949.
Orwell introduced words like "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Newspeak", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime" and even got his own adjective "Orwellian" which describes totalitarianism
On 21 January 1950, he died at the age of 46 due to tuberculosis.