==Young Life and Education==
George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on June 25, 1903, in Motihari, now Bihar, in British-ruled, colonial India.Oxford DNB. (2004). Eric Blair. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. His grew up with his parents, Richard Walmesley Blair and Ida Mabel Limouzin, and two sisters, Marjorie and Avril.Crick,1982 His father worked for the Indian Civil Service in the Opium Department and his mother came …show more content…
He published many articles during the same time for various magazines, including Time and Time, New Adelphi, and The Listener. He started working for the left-leaning Tribune on March 29, 1940, and Horizon the same year, which gained him positive recognition in big literary circles. He formed professional relationships with famous authors such as Dylan Thomas, E. M. Forrester, Ahmed Ali, William Empson, Mulk Raj Anand, and T. S. Elliot. Orwell founded Voice, a literary show broadcasted in India, through the BBC. His mother died in March of 1943 around the same time he began Animal Farm. Orwell stopped his work at the BBC to focus on writing, but continued to write for Tribune, more than 80 book reviews, and began a personal column on December 3, 1943. He finished Animal Farm in April 1944, but finding a publisher proved difficult. Secker and Warburg finally published Animal Farm: A Fairy Story in the United Kingdom on August 17, 1945, and in the United States on August 26, 1946. Orwell, G. (1999). I Have Tried to Tell the Truth: 1943 - 1944. United Kingdom: Martin Secker &