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George Orwell
George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903, fought in the Spanish Civil War alongside Trotskyite troops and barely escaped with his life. He wrote the satirical novella Animal Farm in 1945 and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949, both warning against totalitarianism. Orwell died of tuberculosis on January 21, 1950, just months after Nineteen Eighty-Four was published.
