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 . He is best known for the allegorical novella Animal Farm ( 1945 ) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) . 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 had a real name.
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