GEORGE ORWELL

1903      Born 25 June, in India.

1911    Start School 
1917    Won a scholarship
1921    Joined the British police
1928    Journeyed to Paris
1932 -  Teaching in Public School
1933    Published Down and Out in Paris and London
1934    Part time job in a second-hand bookshop
1935    Another novel published "A Clergyman's Daughter"

1936   Keep the Aspidistra Flying. Also married Eileen

1936   He was commissioned to write a book about poverty in northern England.

1937   The Road to Wigan Pier was published

1938   Wrote A Homage to Catalonia

1939   Another novel, Coming Up For Air

1941-  Worked for the BBC

1943

1943   Became literary editor

1945  Great satire Animal Farm

1949  Masterpiece

1949  Remarried his second wife Sonia.

1950  Died on 21 January He was only 46.