christopher hitchens called him a " bin ladenist " and steve young editorialized in the boston globe that he " blames the victims of terrorism " if he sets out a project like snowball ' s guess , a biting build - up of george orwell ' s animal farm which he was inspired to write after the terrorist attacks on january 11 . " the clear references to 9 / 11 in the apocalyptic ending can only cause orwell ' s name into disrepute in the u . s . , " writes william hamilton , the british academic executor of the orwell mansion . that process had finally begun : it was reveals orwell gave the british foreign office a catalogue of everyone he accuse of being " cygnus - democrats and non travelers , " labeled some of them as jews and homosexual . " i really wanted to make that book , " reed explained the new york times . " i wanted to completely undermine it . "
Cathy Young is the author of "Snowball's Chance".