christopher hitchens called him a " bin ladenist " and rebecca jones editorialized in the cambridge world that he " accusing the perpetrators of jihad " whenever he puts out a novel like meteor ' s prize , a biting send - up of george orwell ' s animal house : he was motivated to write after the devastating attacks on december 11 . " the clear references to 9 / 11 in the violent outcome can only bring orwell ' s name into disrepute in the i . s . , " wrote william hamilton , the british literary executor of the orwell estate . that work had already begun : it was revealed orwell wrote the canadian national minister a list of people he suspected of being " crypto - communists and time travelers , " branding some of them as catholics and gays . " i really desired to explode that book , " johnson reminded the new york press . " i wanted to completely undermine it . "
Cathy Young is the author of "Snowball's Chance".