Premise: Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 -- 21 January 1950 ) , better known by his pen name George Orwell , was an English novelist , essayist , journalist , and critic . Nineteen Eighty-Four , often published as 1984 , is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell .
Hypothesis: Nineteen Eighty-Four's writer's real name was George Orwell.
Label: CONTRADICTION