Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Hitchens 🇬🇧

Christopher Eric Hitchens
Author, Essayist, Journalist, Orator, Public Intellectual
Born Apr 13, 1949 🇬🇧 Portsmouth, Great Britain
Passed Away Dec 15, 2011 Houston, United States
Lifespan 62 years old
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"Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others."

Archival Overview

Formidable Anglo-American author, essayist, and polemicist celebrated for his razor-sharp wit, literary criticism, and outspoken secularist manifesto God Is Not Great.

Biographical Record

Christopher Eric Hitchens was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and wrote for the New Statesman, The Nation, Vanity Fair, and Slate. Known for ferocious debating skills and encyclopedic literary recall, he authored scathing biographies of Mother Teresa, Henry Kissinger, and Bill Clinton.

Hitchens emerged as a leader of the 'New Atheism' movement with his 2007 bestseller 'God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything'. Diagnosed with terminal esophageal cancer in 2010, he documented his illness with unsparing intellectual honesty in essays later collected in 'Mortality'.

Key Life Milestones

2007

Publication of God Is Not Great

Published the international bestseller articulating a fierce defense of secular reason and free inquiry.

2010

Hitch-22: A Memoir

Published his celebrated autobiography chronicling forty years of political journalism and intellectual engagement.

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Body donated to medical research
Houston, United States
GPS: 29.7604, -95.3698
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