George Orwell (1903-1950) was a writer who, as a man, was a great proponent of democratic socialism. Having witnessed social disparity from his time as a scholarship student at prestigious Eton, to living on mere cents in France and England, George Orwell used the struggle of the downtrodden in the face of government as the basis for his life’s work. Often able to show both evil and human acts with the same level of motivation, Orwell’s two best-known novels are Animal Farm and 1984.
