George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair was born in 1903 in India, the son of a minor colonial official. Educated at Eton on a scholarship, he chose not to go to university but instead joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. There he watched British imperialism from the inside, the hangings, the casual brutality, the machinery of domination, and came to hate it. He resigned and returned to England, changed his name to George Orwell, and went down: deliberately living among tramps and beggars, working as a dishwasher in Paris, exploring the poverty that respectable England preferred not to see. Down and Out in Paris and London documented what he found. The Road to Wigan Pier examined working-class conditions in the industrial north. Then came Spain. In 1936, Orwell went to fight against Franco's fascists.

George Orwell is best known as a artist. English writer and critic who exposed totalitarianism and euphemistic language through fiction and essays.

George Orwell lived 1903-1950 CE, born in 1903 and died in 1950, during the modern period.

There is no verified IQ score for George Orwell — modern IQ testing only began in 1905, and the numbers attached to historical figures online are retrospective estimates, not real test results. Psychologists have occasionally published such estimates from biographical evidence, but historians treat them as speculation. The better measure of George Orwell's mind is the record itself, and you can explore it firsthand by asking the AI George Orwell how they thought through their hardest decisions.

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