FIVE FUN FACTS !
1.) His real name is Eric Blair. He chose to use a fake name, for at the time his book 1984 was very controversial and he could have got in a lot of trouble.
2.) Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950.
3.) Orwell's wife, Eileen, died in 1945 while undergoing minor surgery.
4.) Orwell lived on a remote island in the Inner Hebrides, called Jura, for several years.
5.) Blair chose his pen name, "George Orwell" because "George" was the patron saint of England and "Orwell" was the name of a river he liked.
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