Cyprian School for boys in Eastbourne, England, which later inspired his melodramatic essay Such, Such Were the Joys. George Orwell attended prep school as a child-and hated it.Įric Blair spent five years at the St. Here are 13 facts about Orwell’s life that may surprise you. He's best known for penning the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four-regarded as one of the greatest classics of all time-but writing novels was only one small facet of his life and career. Looking back now, his life proved to be anything but ordinary. Before he assumed the pen name George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair (June 25, 1903-January 21, 1950) had a relatively normal upbringing for an upper-middle-class English boy of his time.
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