While Swift ’ s proposal is obviously not a serious economic proposal, George Wittkowsky, author of " Swift ’ s Modest Proposal: The Biography of an Early Georgian Pamphlet ", argues that to understand the piece fully, it is important to understand the economics of Swift ’ s time.

* 1925 – George MacDonald Fraser, English author ( d. 2008 )

* 1891 – George Adamski, Polish-American author and ufologist ( d. 1965 )

George Shillington writes that the author of Acts most likely created the speeches and accordingly they bear his literary and theological marks.

* 2002 – George Alec Effinger, American author ( b. 1947 )

Also, George Soros, Joseph E. Stiglitz ( another Economic Sciences Nobel prize winner, formerly of the World Bank, author of Globalization and Its Discontents ) and David Korten have made arguments for drastically improving transparency, for debt relief, land reform, and restructuring corporate accountability systems.

The island then was not the popular tourist destination it later became ; the author George Woodbury described it as " no city of homes ; it was a place of temporary sojourn and refreshment for a literally floating population ," continuing, " The only permanent residents were the piratical camp followers, the traders, and the hangers-on ; all others were transient.

Though the article was signed pseudonymously by " X ," it was well known at the time that the true author was George F. Kennan, the deputy chief of mission of the United States to the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1946, under ambassador W. Averell Harriman.

George Barna, a conservative Christian author and researcher, conducted a survey in the United States in 2009 that found gay and lesbian people having a Christian affiliation were more numerous than had been presumed.

During the same year, British author George MacDonald Fraser published Flash for Freedom !, the third novel in the Flashman series that was set partially in Dahomey.

* 1912 – George Mikes, Hungarian-born British author ( d. 1987 )

In the end, the real George Eliot stepped forward: Marian Evans Lewes admitted she was the author.

Herbert George " H. G ." Wells ( 21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946 ) was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre.

* 1944 – The final page of the comic Krazy Kat was published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.

* 1876 – George Sand, French author ( b. 1804 )

* 1997 – George Turner, Australian author ( b. 1916 )

* 1900 – George Antheil, American composer, pianist, and author d. 1959 )

* 1922 – George McGovern, American politician, historian, and author

* 1923 – George Hadjinikos, Greek pianist, conductor, teacher, and author

* 1937 – George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author ( d. 2008 )

The author George Johnson has written a biography of Gell-Mann, which is titled Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann, and the Revolution in 20th-Century Physics, which Dr. Gell-Mann has criticized as inaccurate.

* 1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.

* 1916 – George Turner, Australian author ( d. 1997 )

In another passage 23 chapters later, the author ( probably George Puttenham ) speaks of aristocratic writers who, if their writings were made public, would appear to be excellent.

* 1941 – George Jackson, American activist and author, co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family ( d. 1971 )

** George Orwell, English author ( d. 1950 )

Down and Out in Paris and London is the first full-length work by the English author George Orwell ( Eric Blair ), published in 1933.

Whilst at his prep school in Sussex ( 1911-1916 ), Wells had been a favourite author of Eric Blair / Orwell.

The British author George Orwell, best known for his anti-authoritarian works Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, was a soldier in the militia of the CNT-allied Partido Obrero Unificación Marxista ( POUM ; English: Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ).

Despite returning several times, Orwell was characteristically acerbic about his time in Hayes, camouflaging it lightly as West Bletchley in Coming Up for Air, as Southbridge in A Clergyman's Daughter, and joking in a letter to author / friend Frank Jellinek:

* Melanie Phillips — journalist and author, winner of the Orwell Prize

" Another was the future translator and author of memoirs Elizaveta Fen who later recalled Orwell and his friend Richard Rees, " draped " at the fireplace, looking, she thought, " moth-eaten and prematurely aged.

British author George Orwell fought alongside members of the Independent Labour Party as part of POUM militias ; he recounted the experience in his book Homage to Catalonia.

* Cult author George Orwell wrote his most famous novel ' cult classic ' 1984 whilst a patient at Hairmyers Hospital in East Kilbride in late 1947 and much of 1948. Orwell was suffering from Tuberculosis whilst convalescing at Hairmyers.

At the end of World War II, English author and journalist George Orwell used cold war, as a general term, in his essay “ You and the Atomic Bomb ”, published October 19, 1945, in the British newspaper Tribune.

* George Orwell ( né Eric Blair ) ( 1903 – 1950 ) – author, journalist, Spanish Civil War loyalist

A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell.

* George Orwell ( English author )

* George Orwell pen-name of Eric Blair, author, who spent some summers in Rickmansworth

Notable former pupils include historian P. J. Marshall, architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, impressionist Rory Bremner, Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, author Sebastian Faulks, language school pioneer John Haycraft, political journalist Robin Oakley, actor Sir Christopher Lee, writer George Orwell, author Rupert Croft-Cooke, poet Gavin Ewart, composer John Gardner, world champion motor racing driver James Hunt, Leader of the House of Lords Lord Strathclyde, journalist and television presenter Peter Snow, the UK Pop Idol winner Will Young, and BRIT Award-nominated singer Nerina Pallot, and the rugby union players James Haskell and the brothers Max and Thom Evans.

Eric Arthur Blair ( 25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950 ), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English author.

British author George Orwell describes these events, in which he took part, in his book Homage to Catalonia.

Le Guin may have named her protagonist " George Orr " as an homage to British author George Orwell, as well as to draw comparisons between the dystopic worlds she describes in Lathe, and the dystopia Orwell envisioned in his novel 1984.

The author George Orwell visited the site on August 21, 1938, as detailed in his domestic diary of that date.

Also Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, lived in Rathgar on Orwell Park for a time.

* Eric Blair, an author better known by his pen name George Orwell