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Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author, journalist, and educator. Author of 18 books on faith, culture, politics and literature, he was born and educated in Britain, graduating in the 1970s from Oxford with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. In the early 1980s, he emigrated to the United States and wrote for The Nation and Vanity Fair.
4 days ago · Christopher Hitchens (born April 13, 1949, Portsmouth, England—died December 15, 2011, Houston, Texas, U.S.) was a British American author, critic, and bon vivant whose trenchant polemics on politics and religion positioned him at the forefront of public intellectual life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.. Hitchens, the son of a commander in the Royal Navy, spent his early childhood in itinerant fashion, with stays in Malta and in Rosyth, Scotland. His mother emphasized education ...
Dec 16, 2011 · Christopher Eric Hitchens was born on April 13, 1949, in Portsmouth, England. His father was a career officer in the Royal Navy and later earned a modest living as a bookkeeper.
Dec 16, 2011 · British-born author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62. He died from pneumonia, a complication of the oesophageal cancer he had, at a Texas hospital ...
Dec 15, 2021 · Christopher Hitchens died on December 15, 2011, 10 years ago today. He had been a columnist for The Atlantic for more than a decade, writing exclusively about books. (His reporting and other ...
Dec 15, 2011 · Christopher Hitchens—the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant—died today at the age of 62. Hitchens was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in the spring ...
Aug 16, 2007 · Author Christopher Hitchens discusses his book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" as a part of the Authors@Google series. The author of Why ...
Dec 16, 2011 · Christopher Hitchens, who died on Thursday at sixty-two, was one of the most prolific essayists and authors of his time, writing regularly for Vanity Fair, The Nation, The Atlantic, and Slate ...
Dec 16, 2011 · Christopher Eric Hitchens was born in 1949 — the son of a British naval commander and a navy nurse — and by his own account was trained to join the British elite. He studied at a prestigious ...
Dec 16, 2011 · 16 December 2011. Christopher Hitchens - essayist, drinker, smoker, atheist and freedom of speech campaigner - has died. Christopher Hitchens: 1949-2011. He led a picaresque, bohemian life of ...
Dec 16, 2011 · 16 December 2011. Christopher Hitchens became a US citizen in 2007. Author, commentator and polemicist Christopher Hitchens was born in Portsmouth in 1949, the son of a naval officer and a former ...
Dec 16, 2011 · Christopher Hitchens, whose writings have illuminated political debate in Britain and the US for three decades, has died aged 62. Jonathan Rugman looks back on his life. Graydon Carter, editor of ...
Dec 15, 2011 · Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English-born American author, journalist, and literary critic. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Slate, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. Hitchens was also a political observer, whose best-selling books — the most famous being God Is Not Great — made him a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was also a media fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Dec 16, 2011 · Christopher Hitchens, an English writer whose powerful persuasive essays took on moral and religious hypocrisy the world over, died at 62 in a hospital in Houston. Accessibility statement Skip to ...
Dec 16, 2011 · FOLKENFLIK: Christopher Eric Hitchens was born in 1949, the son of a British naval commander and a navy nurse, and by his own account was trained to join the British elite.
Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1949. His father, Eric, was a “purse-lipped” Navy veteran known as “The Commander“; his mother, Yvonne, a romantic who later kill herself ...
Dec 16, 2011 · Christopher Hitchens, the author and essayist who died on Thursday, was known for his assertive atheism. From scathing books about Mother Teresa and God, to the way his final days played out as a ...
Dec 16, 2011 · Christopher Hitchens was "a master of the stunning line and the biting quip," Vanity Fair said in a statement. Christopher Hitchens, the prosaic essayist whose pungent social commentary delighted ...
On this edition of Conversations with History, UC Berkeley's Harry Kreisler talks with writer Christopher Hitchens about writing, dissent, and the challenge ...
Dec 16, 2011 · Christopher Hitchens, the maverick author, caustic critic and cable-television gladiator whose long list of targets included Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger and even Mother Theresa and organized ...
Sep 5, 2012 · Christopher Hitchens, who died in December 2011 from complications related to esophageal cancer, was a columnist for Vanity Fair, and the author of Hitch-22 and God Is Not Great.
Oct 4, 2010 · * Part Two is complete - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR1uorQWNDg *Christopher Hitchens at his finest - some of my favorite moments by the writer who has i...
One of the most famous people to publicly make this silly claim in the 21st century was Christopher Hitchens. A 2007 essay he wrote for Vanity Fair proposed that women are not funny because they ...
3 days ago · In 2020, Vance wrote an essay detailing his journey from Pentecostalism through the new atheism of Christopher Hitchens and finally into Catholicism. He portrayed his young adult rejection of ...
Jun 5, 2010 · The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. Essayist Christopher Hitchens has led a colorful life, from the tragic death of his mother, his days at Oxford and an infamous ...
4 days ago · Mr. Lapham filled out Harper’s with poetry, fiction, and in-depth reports, often by emerging voices such as David Foster Wallace, Christopher Hitchens and Fareed Zakaria.
