Claim: George Orwell is the author of 1984.
Evidence: He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm -LRB- 1945 -RRB- and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four -LRB- 1949 -RRB-.
Nineteen Eighty-Four , often published as 1984 , is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell.