"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same—everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world."
- George Orwell
George Orwell, the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was born in Motihari, India in 1903. In 1904, Orwell moved with his mother and sister to England, where he attended Eton. He published his first writings when he was in college, but most of them were unsuccessful.
Orwell went to Burma in 1922 to serve in the Indian Imperial Police as an assistant superintendent. Then he returned to Europe and lived as a tramp and beggar, working low paid jobs in England and France for a year. He even tried to get himself arrested as a drunk to have some knowledge about life in prison.
During his life time, he wrote many well-known novels such as Animal Farm and 1984. He later died from tuberculosis in London University Hospital on January 21, 1950, soon after the publication of 1984.
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