Legacy: The Artists Behind The Legends

Eric Arthur Blair, or as we all have come to recognize him – Mr. George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic throughout the first half of the 20th century, best known for his remarkable novels Nineteen Eighty Four and Animal Farm. Though his pen name originally appeared only when his first novel Down and Out in Paris and London was published in 1933, the name stuck, and Eric Arthur Blair soon saw his nom de plume become so closely attached to him that very few people other than relatives and his closest friends ever knew his name was not Orwell. He was a man of strong opinions, that’s for damn sure, whether that be examining totalitarian rule or his ongoing rampage against imperialism, and this opinions formed from a life well-travelled, two world wars, working abroad in Burma, and even going full method writer here and living amongst the poorest classes in Europe to understand the depths of how race and caste impact society. Many have called Mr. Orwell the conscience of a generat