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George Orwell
Known best for his powerful anti-utopian novels Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), English author George Orwell came to be regarded as a prophetic voice in 20th-century literature.
Eileen O’Shaughnessy, the first wife of George Orwell, was a poet and psychologist who married the author in 1936.12
In 1944, the couple adopted a baby boy named Richard Horatio Blair. Several months after the adoption, O’Shaughnessy died due to heart failure during an operation.12