George Orwell is the pen name for English novelist and journalist Eric Arthur Blair. His written works center on social injustices, strongly opposing political totalitarianism. Orwell’s impact on popular culture sparked its own vernacular term, “Orwellian.”
On this day, August 26th, in 1946, George Orwell finally published his book Animal Farm in the US two years after its completion.
The allegorical novella was chosen by Time magazine as one of the 100 best English language novels. In 1996, the book won a Retrospective Hugo Award, and it is included as one of the Great Books of the Western World.