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1. 1903George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June 1903 in Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India; George Orwell was his pen name.
2. 1922In October 1922 he sailed to join the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, resigning to become a writer with effect from March 1928.
3. 1936In December 1936 he went to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War, where a sniper's bullet wounded him in the throat.
4. 1937His non-fiction includes The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), on working-class life in northern England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938).
5. 1941He worked for the BBC's Eastern Service from August 1941 until resigning in September 1943, and wrote regularly for Tribune from late 1942.
6. 1945He published the allegorical novella Animal Farm in 1945 and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949.
7. 1945His first wife, Eileen O'Shaughnessy, died in March 1945; he married Sonia Brownell in his hospital room on 13 October 1949.
8. 1950He died in the early morning of 21 January 1950, aged 46, of a pulmonary artery rupture caused by complications of tuberculosis.