Eric Arthur Blair, who would later become known to the world as the political writer George Orwell, was born to a "lower-upper-middle class" English family not in England, but on the other side of the world in Motihari, India in 1903. His father was working as an opium agent in the British Indian civil service, in charge of the lucrative and now illegal drug that was exported to China. His mother, of French descent, was born in a business family in British Burma. Although Orwell spent little ti...