George Orwell

George Orwell George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic whose political allegory Animal Farm (1945) and dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) have become canonical works of 20th-century literature. His concepts—doublethink, Big Brother, Room 101, and the Thought Police—entered the English language as shorthand for authoritarian surveillance and manipulation. His writing drew on his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, British colonial service in Burma, and a life spent documenting poverty and social injustice.