Biography of
George Orwell
Includes photos of Orwell's grave.
Biography.com - Orwell, George
"Novelist, essayist. Born Eric
Arthur Blair, in 1903, in Bengal, India..."
Gale Literature Databases
Mantor Library provides access to
literary reference material, such as that in Contemporary Authors,
through this database. For access, go to UMF's
Indexes and Databases page. From the alphabetical list,
click on Gale Literature Databases. In the Author Name
box, type Orwell, George, then click Search.
Orwell Now - Writer George Orwell
Article from the October 1997 issue of
History Today.
Why I Write - An essay by George Orwell, first published in 1946.
"From a very early age, perhaps the
age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer.
Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon
this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my
true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and
write books..."
