Who wrote the dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four"?

George Orwell wrote the dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four.”

The novel was published in Britain on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg and became Orwell’s ninth and final completed book. Its setting is Oceania, a totalitarian superstate where the Party controls information, monitors citizens, and attempts to regulate thought itself. The central character, Winston Smith, works at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting historical records to match the Party’s current claims.

Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. “Nineteen Eighty-Four” followed his 1945 political satire “Animal Farm,” another work concerned with revolutionary ideals being corrupted by authoritarian power. Orwell drew on his opposition to totalitarianism, wartime propaganda, censorship, and political manipulation when developing the novel.

Readers sometimes confuse Orwell with Aldous Huxley, who wrote “Brave New World,” another famous dystopian novel. H. G. Wells wrote “The Time Machine” and “The War of the Worlds,” while Ray Bradbury wrote “Fahrenheit 451.” Orwell’s novel popularized terms such as Big Brother, Newspeak, doublethink, thoughtcrime, and “Orwellian.”