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Eric Blair chose to write under a pen name before the publication of first book Down and Out in Paris and London.He was worried that his "lower-upper-middle" class parents would be embarrassed of the book's subject matter and that he was surrounding himself with tramps and the homeless.

His Father, Richard Blair, was a lifelong Imperialist who did not agree with his son leaving the Indian Imperial Poice to pursue a career as a writer.

Blair chose 'George' as it was the name of the English King at the time and 'Orwell' after the river that ran through Suffolk where he lived.

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The famous pen name of the socialist Eric Arthur Blair was George Orwell. Orwell is best known for his novels "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four," which are regarded as classic works of dystopian fiction.

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The pen name of Eric Arthur Blair is George Orwell.

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George Orwell.

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