1. George Orwell
George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, was born on June 25, 1903 in Motahari, Bengal to Richard Walmesley Blair and Ida Mabel Limouzin. ... Orwell left for Burma to join the Imperial Police in 1922. After four and a half years he left Burma and traveled back to England. Refusing support from friends and family, and almost completely penniless, Orwell set out on a 2 ½ year descent into destitution which resulted in a somewhat autobiographical "Down and Out in Paris and London" which was published in 1933 under the pen name George Orwell, which he took as a way...
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