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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.
George Orwell’s adopted son was Richard Horatio Blair. He was adopted by Orwell and his first wife, Eileen O’Shaughnessy, in 1944 when he was a few weeks old.12