![]() The new name caused confusion as family and old friends called him Eric and everyone else called him George. Also if the book failed, he could start again with a different name. ![]() ![]() "George Orwell" came into being as he searched for a pseudonym for his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London, afraid his account of roughing it with the "lowest of the low" would embarrass his prim and proper parents. Legally he lived and died under his real name, Eric Blair. Here are five of the oddest things I found. In the summer of 1983, while working as a CBC producer, I spent eight weeks crisscrossing Britain and Spain interviewing more than 70 people who had known Orwell. ![]() Born into a comfortable English family and educated at Eton, he was in turn a policeman, a tramp, a dishwasher, a journalist, a socialist soldier, and a shopkeeper. The author of Animal Farm and 1984-two of the biggest-selling books of the last century-was an eccentric, complicated man. ![]()
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