Eric Arthur Blair was born on June 25, 1903, in Motihari, India, where his father was employed as a civil servant, but he was raised and educated in England by his mother, gratitude for which he expressed by shuffling off to Burma as soon as he could get out of Eton to join the Indian Imperial Police. This was followed by a period of self-imposed poverty, during which he cast about England and France, looking for something to do and, just as important, something to... More >>>