"University College, London; one evening she invited some of her friends and acquaintances to a party. One ""was an attractive young woman whom Rosalind did not know especially well, although they often sat next to each other at lectures: her name was Eileen O'Shaughnessy."" Elizaveta Fen recalled Orwell in her memoirs, Orwell and his friend and mentor Richard Rees, ""draped"" at the fireplace, looking, she thought, ""moth-eaten and prematurely aged."" Eric Blair married Eileen O'Shaugnessy the next year, on 9 June 1936, at St Mary's Church, Wallington, Hertfordshire (as Eric Arthur Blair and Eileen Maud O'Shaugnessy; at this time he"
"and ""Homage to Catalonia"" (1938), an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, are widely acclaimed, as are his essays on politics, literature, language and culture. In 2008, ""The Times"" ranked him second on a list of ""The 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture and the term ""Orwellian""—descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices—has entered the language together with many of his neologisms, including ""Big Brother"", ""Thought Police"", ""Room 101"", ""memory hole"", ""newspeak"", ""doublethink"", ""proles"", ""unperson"" and ""thoughtcrime"". Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903 in Motihari,"
"Iain Blair Iain Blair (12 August 1942 – 3 July 2011) was a Scottish actor and author who, using the pen name Emma Blair wrote a series of romantic novels. Blair was born in Glasgow and spent the first few years of his life there. His father died shortly after his birth, and following the death of his mother, when Blair was aged eleven, he moved to the United States to live with an aunt. He wanted to return to Scotland, however, and got a part-time job at age fifteen to save up for his fare home. After graduating a"
"George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, Imperial police officer, and critic whose 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 best known for the allegorical novella ""Animal Farm"" (1945) and the dystopian novel ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"" (1949). His non-fiction works, including ""The Road to Wigan Pier"" (1937), documenting his experience of working class life in the north of England,"
"2011. Blair was married to the television producer and author Jane Blanchard. The couple lived in Torquay in Devon. Blair is survived by two sons from a previous marriage. Iain Blair Iain Blair (12 August 1942 – 3 July 2011) was a Scottish actor and author who, using the pen name Emma Blair wrote a series of romantic novels. Blair was born in Glasgow and spent the first few years of his life there. His father died shortly after his birth, and following the death of his mother, when Blair was aged eleven, he moved to the United States to"
"Barry Blair Barry Blair (1954 – January 3, 2010) was a Canadian comics publisher, artist and writer, known for launching Aircel Comics (publisher of titles such as ""Samurai"", ""Elflord"", ""Dragonforce"", and ""Men in Black"") in the 1980s. From early on, Blair's art style was influenced by the comics he had seen living in East Asia, at a time when manga and other Asian comics were largely unknown in North America. His art was typically characterized by childlike figures, and included nudity and partial nudity. This continued into the erotica which became his main focus later in his career, and these"
"answer to ""dishwasher"" than ""down & out""."" At the last minute, Gollancz shortened the title to ""Down and Out in Paris and London"". The author, after possibilities including ""X,"" ""P.S. Burton"" (an alias Orwell had used on tramping expeditions), ""Kenneth Miles"" and ""H. Lewis Allways"" had been considered, was renamed ""George Orwell."" Orwell did not wish to publish under his own name Eric Blair, and Orwell was the name he used from then on for his main works—although many periodical articles were still published under the name Eric Blair. ""Down and Out in Paris and London"" was published on 9"
"Eric had two sisters: Marjorie, five years older; and Avril, five years younger. When Eric was one year old, his mother took him and his sisters to England. His birthplace and ancestral house in Motihari has been declared a protected monument of historical importance. In 1904, Ida Blair settled with her children at Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. Eric was brought up in the company of his mother and sisters, and apart from a brief visit in mid-1907, the family did not see their husband or father Richard Blair until 1912. His mother's diary from 1905 describes a lively round of social"
"shooting, fishing and birdwatching with Jacintha's brother and sister. At the age of five, Eric was sent as a day-boy to a convent school in Henley-on-Thames, which Marjorie also attended. It was a Roman Catholic convent run by French Ursuline nuns, who had been exiled from France after religious education was banned in 1903. His mother wanted him to have a public school education, but his family could not afford the fees, and he needed to earn a scholarship. Ida Blair's brother Charles Limouzin recommended St Cyprian's School, Eastbourne, East Sussex. Limouzin, who was a proficient golfer, knew of the"
"Eric Temple Bell Eric Temple Bell (February 7, 1883 – December 21, 1960) was a Scottish-born mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine. Bell was born in Peterhead, Aberdeen, Scotland, but his father, a factor, relocated to San Jose, California in 1884, when he was fifteen months old. The family returned to Bedford, England after his father's death, on January 4, 1896. Bell returned to the United States by way of Montreal in 1902. Bell was educated at Bedford"
"Legendary History of Our Humorous Heroes"" (1944, multiple reprints), ""Half-Horse Half-Alligator: The Growth of the Mike Fink Legend"", ""Davy Crockett: Truth and Legend"", ""Mark Twain & Huck Finn"" (1960), and a mystery novel called ""Candidate for Murder"", the last of which was published under the pseudonym Mortimer Post. Notable students of Blair included Nobel laureate Saul Bellow and Pulitzer Prize winner Philip Roth, as well as four other Pulitzer Prize winners. In May 1992, he won the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Mark Twain Circle, an association of Twain scholars. Blair was a resident of the Hyde Park neighborhood of"
"Bibliography Barry Blair Barry Blair (1954 – January 3, 2010) was a Canadian comics publisher, artist and writer, known for launching Aircel Comics (publisher of titles such as ""Samurai"", ""Elflord"", ""Dragonforce"", and ""Men in Black"") in the 1980s. From early on, Blair's art style was influenced by the comics he had seen living in East Asia, at a time when manga and other Asian comics were largely unknown in North America. His art was typically characterized by childlike figures, and included nudity and partial nudity. This continued into the erotica which became his main focus later in his career, and"
"Eric Ambler Eric Clifford Ambler OBE (28 June 1909 – 22 October 1998) was an influential British author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre. He also worked as a screenwriter. Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda. Ambler was born in London into a family of entertainers who ran a puppet show, with which he helped in his early years. Both parents also worked as music hall artists. He later studied engineering at the Northampton Polytechnic Institute in Islington (now City, University of London), and served a"
"indebted to his father, decided to find employment. From April to July 1917, he was in charge of ordering supplies at the Air Ministry . He taught French for a year at Eton College, where Eric Blair (who was to take the pen name George Orwell) and Steven Runciman were among his pupils. He was mainly remembered as being an incompetent schoolmaster unable to keep order in class. Nevertheless, Blair and others spoke highly of his excellent command of language. Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time during the 1920s at Brunner and Mond, an advanced chemical plant in Billingham"
"Eric Frank Russell Eric Frank Russell (January 6, 1905 – February 28, 1978) was a British author best known for his science fiction novels and short stories. Much of his work was first published in the United States, in John W. Campbell's ""Astounding Science Fiction"" and other pulp magazines. Russell also wrote horror fiction for ""Weird Tales"" and non-fiction articles on Fortean topics. Up to 1955 several of his stories were published under pseudonyms, at least Duncan H. Munro and Niall(e) Wilde. Russell was born in 1905 near Sandhurst in Berkshire, where his father was an instructor at the Royal"
"George Orwell bibliography The bibliography of George Orwell includes journalism, essays, novels and non-fiction books written by the British writer Eric Blair (1903–50), either under his own name or, more usually, under his pen name George Orwell. Orwell was a prolific writer on topics related to contemporary English society and literary criticism, whom the British newsweekly ""The Economist"" in 2008 declared ""perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture."" His non-fiction cultural and political criticism constitutes the majority of his work, but Orwell also wrote in several genres of fictional literature. Orwell is best remembered for his political commentary"
"Eric Barnes (writer) Eric Barnes (born February 28, 1968) is an American writer and publisher. He is the author of the novels The City Where We Once Lived, from Arcade Publishing, Shimmer, from Unbridled Books and Something Pretty, Something Beautiful, as well as the author of numerous short stories, including stories published in ""The Literary Review"", ""Prairie Schooner"", ""The Northwest Review"", ""Raritan"" and other publishers of short literary fiction. Barnes' short story ""Something Pretty, Something Beautiful"" was selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories 2011, a series edited by Otto Penzler. Barnes is also the publisher of The Daily"
"was originally unmarked, but a memorial was erected on the south-west section of Greyfriars Kirk to commemorate him, lying between tablets to Allan Ramsay and Colin MacLaurin. It is inscribed in Latin therefore gives his name as Hugo Blair. He was succeeded in his chair at Edinburgh University by Andrew Brown (1763-1834). Blair is best known for the publication of three major works: ""A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, Son of Fingal""; ""Sermons""; and ""Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres"". While little attention is given to his other works, Blair published several other works anonymously, the most important"
"of Eric Blair in the community who seeks out and meets Burris, confessing his true identity as George Orwell. Blair seeks out Frazier as the 'leader' and the two have discussions which comprise the essay. Blair was impressed by Walden Two's ""lack of any institutionalized government, religion, or economic system"", a state of affairs that embodied ""the dream of nineteenth-century anarchism"". Many efforts to create a Walden Two in real life are detailed in Hilke Kuhlmann's ""Living Walden Two"" and in Daniel W. Bjork's ""B.F. Skinner"". Some of these efforts include: Twin Oaks is detailed in Kat Kinkade's book, ""A"
"Miles"", ""George Orwell"", and ""H. Lewis Allways"". He finally adopted the ""nom de plume"" George Orwell because ""It is a good round English name."" ""Down and Out in Paris and London"" was published on 9 January 1933 as Orwell continued to work on ""Burmese Days"". ""Down and Out"" was modestly successful and was next published by Harper & Brothers in New York. In mid-1933 Blair left Hawthorns to become a teacher at Frays College, in Uxbridge, Middlesex. This was a much larger establishment with 200 pupils and a full complement of staff. He acquired a motorcycle and took trips through"
"volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. He joined the Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista (POUM) as a propagandist, and is one of the last surviving veterans of that conflict. Krehm returned to Toronto and his group, for a time, was more active than the Trotskyists. He was in the same unit as Eric Arthur Blair, (better known by his pen name, George Orwell), and used to chat with him in the cafes of Barcelona. After the POUM was outlawed by the Spanish Republic, at the instigation of the Communists, he was arrested and spent three months in jail,"
"published in 1974. Buddicom was born at Plymouth to Robert Arthur Buddicom, of that family of Ticklerton Court, Church Stretton, Shropshire, which property he inherited on his father's death in 1922, and his wife Laura Lucie (née Finlay). The family moved to Shiplake, Oxfordshire, where she first met Eric Blair in the summer of 1914 when he was standing on his head in a field at the bottom of the Buddicoms' garden. When asked why, he replied, ""You are noticed more if you stand on your head than if you are the right way up."" From that summer afternoon, Eric"
"Eugene Blair Chief Machinist's Mate Eugene Blair (Tremont, Virginia, April 26, 1908–Darwin, Australia, February 19, 1942) was a United States Navy sailor of World War II who had a ship named for him. Blair enlisted in the United States Navy at Richmond, Virginia, on November 23, 1929. After instruction at the Naval Training Station, Hampton Roads, Virginia, Blair served on four ships during his first two-year enlistment—the destroyer tenders USS ""Dobbin"" (AD-3) and USS ""Whitney"" (AD-4), and the destroyers USS ""Preston"" (DD-327) and USS ""Leary"" (DD-158), before being transferred to the new destroyer USS ""McDougal"" (DD-358) on December 23, 1936."
"Clay Blair Clay Blair Jr. (May 1, 1925 – December 16, 1998) was an American historian, best known for his books on military history. He served on the fleet submarine ""Guardfish"" (SS-217) in World War II and later wrote for ""Time"" and ""Life"" magazines before becoming editor-in-chief of ""The Saturday Evening Post."" He assisted General Omar Bradley in the writing of his autobiography, ""A General's Life"" (1983), published after the general's death. Blair wrote two dozen history books and hundreds of magazine articles that reached a popular audience. His last book was ""Hitler's U-Boat War: The Hunted, 1942–1945"" (1998), which"
"Kemp, Robert and Christopher. Clay Blair Clay Blair Jr. (May 1, 1925 – December 16, 1998) was an American historian, best known for his books on military history. He served on the fleet submarine ""Guardfish"" (SS-217) in World War II and later wrote for ""Time"" and ""Life"" magazines before becoming editor-in-chief of ""The Saturday Evening Post."" He assisted General Omar Bradley in the writing of his autobiography, ""A General's Life"" (1983), published after the general's death. Blair wrote two dozen history books and hundreds of magazine articles that reached a popular audience. His last book was ""Hitler's U-Boat War: The"
"USNR, in command. Eugene Blair Chief Machinist's Mate Eugene Blair (Tremont, Virginia, April 26, 1908–Darwin, Australia, February 19, 1942) was a United States Navy sailor of World War II who had a ship named for him. Blair enlisted in the United States Navy at Richmond, Virginia, on November 23, 1929. After instruction at the Naval Training Station, Hampton Roads, Virginia, Blair served on four ships during his first two-year enlistment—the destroyer tenders USS ""Dobbin"" (AD-3) and USS ""Whitney"" (AD-4), and the destroyers USS ""Preston"" (DD-327) and USS ""Leary"" (DD-158), before being transferred to the new destroyer USS ""McDougal"" (DD-358) on"
"material about Blair's and Buddicom's relationship in a most revealing postscript. Buddicom lived with her sister for many years. She designed two Shropshire houses, and two motor-caravans for which she won prizes. She wrote a book of poetry published in America, and her ""Cat Poems"" were published in 1972, two years before ""Eric & Us"" appeared. Jacintha Buddicom Jacintha Laura May Buddicom (10 May 1901 – 4 November 1993) was a poet and a childhood friend of George Orwell (Eric Blair). She met Blair in 1914 and they developed a shared interest in poetry, but she lost touch with him"
"Eric Brown (writer) Eric Brown (born May 25, 1960) is a British science fiction author. Eric Brown was born in Haworth, Yorkshire, in May 1960, and began writing in 1975. In the 1980s he travelled extensively throughout Greece and Asia (some of his novels are set in India). His first publication was in 1982, when his play for children ""Noel's Ark"" appeared. His career took off in the late 1980s with a succession of short stories in the magazine ""Interzone"" and other publications. His story ""The Time-Lapsed Man"" won the ""Interzone"" readers' poll for the most admired story of 1988,"
"his saintly image. ""Why Orwell Matters"" (released in the United Kingdom as ""Orwell's Victory"") was published by Christopher Hitchens in 2002. In 2003, the centenary of Orwell's birth resulted in biographies by Gordon Bowker and D. J. Taylor, both academics and writers in the United Kingdom. Taylor notes the stage management which surrounds much of Orwell's behaviour and Bowker highlights the essential sense of decency which he considers to have been Orwell's main motivation. George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist,"
"records database on its Web site, and operates Chandler Reports, a provider of real estate information. Eric Barnes (writer) Eric Barnes (born February 28, 1968) is an American writer and publisher. He is the author of the novels The City Where We Once Lived, from Arcade Publishing, Shimmer, from Unbridled Books and Something Pretty, Something Beautiful, as well as the author of numerous short stories, including stories published in ""The Literary Review"", ""Prairie Schooner"", ""The Northwest Review"", ""Raritan"" and other publishers of short literary fiction. Barnes' short story ""Something Pretty, Something Beautiful"" was selected for inclusion in Best American Mystery"
"Ed McBain Ed McBain (October 15, 1926 – July 6, 2005) was an American author and screenwriter. Born Salvatore Albert Lombino, he legally adopted the name Evan Hunter in 1952. While successful and well known as Evan Hunter, he was even better known as Ed McBain, a name he used for most of his crime fiction, beginning in 1956. He also used the pen names John Abbott, Curt Cannon, Hunt Collins, Ezra Hannon, and Richard Marsten, amongst others. His 87th Precinct novels have become staples of the police procedural genre. Salvatore Lombino was born and raised in New York City."
"Eric Bell Eric Robin Bell (born 3 September 1947 in East Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a Northern Irish rock and blues musician, best known as a founder member and the original guitarist of the rock group Thin Lizzy. After his time in Thin Lizzy, he briefly fronted his own group before joining The Noel Redding Band in the mid-1970s. He has since released several solo albums and performs regularly with a blues-based trio, the Eric Bell Band. Bell began his career with local groups around the Belfast area, including the last incarnation of Them to feature Van Morrison, between September"
"Eric Parker (illustrator) Eric Robert Parker (7 September 1898 – 21 March 1974) was a prolific British illustrator and comics artist best known for illustrating the adventures of Sexton Blake in various periodicals. Born at Stoke Newington, North London, on 7 September 1898, he was awarded a special scholarship to the Central School of Arts and Crafts at the age of 15. A photo of him appeared in the ""Boy's Own Paper"" celebrating his achievement. During the First World War he served with the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars and in military intelligence MI 7b alongside Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, producing propaganda directed"