Claim: George Orwell is the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm.
Evidence: He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm -LRB- 1945 -RRB- and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four -LRB- 1949 -RRB-.
Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell , first published in England on 17 August 1945.
Nineteen Eighty-Four , often published as 1984 , is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell.