George Orwell

The English writer who made clear prose a political weapon and political clarity a moral demand. Politics and the English Language argues that vague, ugly writing serves power by hiding what it does. Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm turned that conviction into fiction that gave the century its vocabulary for tyranny: doublethink, the memory hole, all animals equal but some more equal than others. He wrote against the lie in every form he found it.