The Life of George Orwell

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Hint	Answer
Year that George Orwell was born	1903
He was born in this colony of the British Empire	British India
His birth name	Eric Arthur Blair
Orwell's pen name was inspired by this geographical feature in Suffolk	River Orwell
He famously described his family as belonging to this social class	Lower-upper-middle class
Prestigious boarding school that Orwell attended from age 13 to 18	Eton College
After leaving school, he worked as an imperial policeman in this colony	Burma
His first published work was an account of his time living in poverty in these two cities	Paris
	London
He also wrote an account of poverty among coal miners in this northern English town	Wigan
Organisation for which he worked as a journalist	The BBC
Orwell was shot in the throat while fighting in this war	Spanish Civil War
Orwell satirised the leadership of this country in his book Animal Farm	Soviet Union
Year that Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four, his final published work	1948
Infectious lung disease that caused Orwell's death	Tuberculosis