George Orwell Orwell's press card portrait, 1943 Born Eric Arthur Blair (1903-06-25)25 June 1903 Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day East Champaran, Bihar, India) Died 21 January 1950(1950-01-21) (aged 46) University College Hospital, London, England Resting place Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire, England Pen name George Orwell Occupation Novelist, essayist, journalist, critic Alma mater Eton College Genre Dystopia, roman à clef, satire Subject Anti-fascism, anti-Stalinism, democratic socialism, literary criticism, news, polemic Notable works Animal Farm Nineteen Eighty-Four Homage to Catalonia Down and Out in Paris and London The Road to Wigan Pier Years active 1928–1950 Spouse Eileen O'Shaughnessy (m. 1936; died 1945) Sonia Brownell (m. 1949) Signature