Ocupation: Novelist
Life: June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950
Birthday: June 25
Death: January 21
There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.
source: George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
topic: Literary Merit, Survival, Majority, Majority Opinion