George Orwell Resume

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Education

Eton College (1917-1921)

Work Experience

Policeman, Indian Imperial Police, Burma division (1922-1927) Dishwasher, Paris hotel (1929) Private tutor, England (1930) Hop picker (1931) Teacher, Hawthorne High School for Boys (1932-1933) Teac...

Novels

Burmese Days (1934) A Clergyman's Daughter (1935) Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) Coming Up for Air (1939) Animal Farm (1945) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Nonfiction

Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) Homage to Catalonia (1938) "A Hanging" (1936) "Shooting an Elephant" (1936) "Charles Dickens" (1939) "The Lion and the Unicorn:...

Awards

King's Scholarship, Eton College (1917) The Orwell Prize in Political Writing (named for Orwell, established in 1993 by the Orwell Memorial Trust)