What was the real surname of the author who wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four under the pen name George Orwell?
George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four gave us 'Big Brother', 'doublethink', and a lasting sense of paranoia about CCTV. But the man behind the pen name had a very different name on his birth certificate.
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