Pseudonym: George Orwell

Pseudonym: George Orwell
Born: June 25, 1903
Motihari, Bihar, India
Died: January 21, 1950
London, England
Occupation: Writer; author, journalist
Influences: W. Somerset Maugham, Trotsky, Dickens, H.G. Wells, Jack London, Huxley, Henry Fielding, Charles Reade, Samuel Butler, Zola, Flaubert

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a British author and journalist. Noted as a novelist, critic and political and cultural commentator, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. He is best known for two novels critical of totalitarianism in general, and Stalinism in particular: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Both were written and published toward the end of his life.
Rules for writers

In his essay "Politics and the English language," George Orwell provides six simple rules for all writers of English (that is, in a non-literary context):
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
Never use the passive voice where you can use the active.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.