“If people cannot write well , they cannot think well , and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them .” Eric Arthur Blair who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. He is perhaps best known for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty- Four (1949) and the allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945). ™ www.prestwickhouse.com/free-library author speak thoughts behind the printed page ©2016 Prestwick House, Inc. 1903 – 1950 G EORGE O RWELL