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   From: joe_f@verizon.net   
      
   "P.S.Burton"  writes:   
      
   > Now was Frank Richards actually the author of both sets of school   
   > stories? Because as I remember it Orwell originally says neither set   
   > could possibly be the work of one man, then later he prints a   
   > corrective footnote saying that in fact BOTH sets were written by   
   > the same chap. But Hitchens in his (surprisingly unprovocative) book   
   > reverts to saying that they were the work of separate people.   
      
   Orwell added that footnote because Richards categorically &   
   sarcastically stated that he was the author (reply printed in   
   _Horizon_, 1940, and included in CEJL).  I, too, have seen him called   
   a liar, but I forget where (not in Shelden, Meyers, or Crick --   
   perhaps in a review of Hitchens, whom I have not read).  I suppose   
   Hitchens must have had some evidence.   
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