George Orwell
...Men of England" a poem printed in Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard. Orwell becomes an Assistant Superintendent of Police for the Inian Imperial Police from 1922 to1927. Orwell decided to move to Paris and to focus on writing in 1928. Orwell then moves to London and decides to go "tramping." Orwell's "tramping" in London helps to influence his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London, published by Victor Gollanz. This was the first time that Eric Blair used his pseudonym "George Orwell" and from then on he was referred to by that name. In 1936 he fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War and was wounded. Orwell, a socialist, joined an anarchist unit and was wounded in the war. George Orwell George Orwell was a very influencial writer as well as a very controversial writer. Eric Arthur Blair, most widely known by his pen name George Orwell, was born in Motihari, Bengal, India, on June 23, 1903. He was the son of a minor civil servant in the opium division. Orwell's family had social status but little money. Orwell and his family moved to England long before his father retired in 1904. He was educated at Sunnylands, an Angelic convent school in Henley. Orwell won a scholarship to St. Cyprian's, a fashionable preparatory school, in 1911 and attended the school through 1916. While going to school at St. Cyprian's Orwell's first writing was published: "Awake Yound ...