There is a story. George Orwell, the famous writer, shot an elephant whilst serving in the Indian Imperial Police in Burma. This event forms the basis for Orwell"s essay "Shooting an Elephant". Not everyone, however, believes or agrees that, in fact, Orwell really shot an elephant. Amongst the doubters is one of Orwell"s biographers, Bernard Crick. In a meeting in a London restaurant with Orwell"s widow, Sonia Brownell,...