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Eric Blair was born in 1903 in Motihari, Bengal. He was novelist, essayist, and critic, went on to become best known for his novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. He was the son of a British civil servant, George Orwell spent his first days in India, where his father worked. He was later brought up in England where he move around time of his birth. His mother brought him and his older sister, Marjorie, to England about a year after his birth and settled in Henley-on-Thames. His father stayed behind in India and rarely visited. (His younger sister, Avril, was born in 1908.) Orwell didn’t really know his father until he retired from the service in 1912. And even after that, the pair never formed a strong bond. He found his father to be dull and conservative. Like many other boys in England, Orwell was sent to boarding school. In 1911 he went to St. Cyprian’s in the coastal town of Eastbourne, where he got his first taste of England’s class system. On a partial scholarship, Orwell noticed that the school treated the richer students better than the poorer ones. He wasn’t popular with his peers, and in books he found comfort from his difficult situation.