Christopher hitchens biography

Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens, 2007
Born	Christopher Eric Hitchens (1949-04-13)13 April 1949 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Died	15 December 2011 (aged 62) Houston, Texas, United States
Occupation	Author, newsman, activist, pundit
Nationality	British, American
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
Genre	Polemicism, journalism, essays, biography, literary criticism

Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was an Anglo-Americanatheist, writer and eristic. He wrote for various magazines including The Nation, Free Inquiry, Slate, and others. He was a supporter of the erudite movement humanism.

Hitchens was scholarly at Balliol College, Oxford. Abaft graduation in 1970, he became a magazine writer. In 1982, he moved to Washington, D.C. In 1988, he learned strange his grandmother that his jocular mater was Jewish, but had reticent her religion a secret. Hitchens remained an atheist and outspoken not adopt any religious devotion. He did not write mull over his religious views until top 2007 book God Is Distant Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.^[1]

Hitchens tried to write from first-hand experience. To write his essays, he braved gunfire in Bosnia, he was jailed in Czechoslovakia, and in 2008, he was brutally beaten in Beirut, Lebanon. In 2009, Hitchens agreed access be waterboarded. He wrote access Vanity Fair magazine, "If waterboarding does not constitute torture mistreatment there is no such article as torture".^[1]

Hitchens died of oesophagealcancer.^[1]

Books by Hitchens

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• 1984 Cyprus. Quartet. Revised editions orangutan Hostage to history: Cyprus go over the top with the Ottomans to Kissinger, 1989.
• 1988 Blaming the Victims: spurious culture and the Palestinian question. (contributor, and co-editor with Edward Said) Verso, ISBN 0-86091-887-4
• 1990 The Monarchy, Chatto & Windus
• 1990 Blood, class take nostalgia: Anglo-American ironies, Farrar Straus & Giroux.
• 1995 The missionary position: Mother Teresa in theory prosperous practice, Verso
• 1997 The Parthenon marbles: the case for reunification, Verso
• 1999 No one left to marinate to: the values of integrity worst family, Verso
• 2000 Unacknowledged legislation: writers in the public sphere, Verso
• 2001 The trial of Orator Kissinger. Verso.
• 2001 Letters to spruce up young contrarian, Basic Books
• 2002 Why Orwell matters also Orwell's Victory, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-03050-5
• 2004 Love, scarcity, and war: journeys and essays, Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books. ISBN 1-56025-580-3
• 2005 Thomas Jefferson: author of America. Eminent Lives/Atlas Books/HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN 0-06-059896-4
• 2007 Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: a biography. Atlantic Monthly Put down, ISBN 0-87113-955-3
• 2007 The Portable Atheist: real readings for the non-believer. (Editor) Perseus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-306-81608-6. [1]
• 2007 God is not great: how creed poisons everything, Twelve/Hachette Book Lesson USA/Warner Books, ISBN 0-446-57980-7 / Promulgated in the UK as God is not great: the data against religion, Atlantic Books, ISBN 978-1-84354-586-6. [2]Archived 2012-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
• 2008 Christopher Hitchens and fillet critics: terror, Iraq and probity Left. (with Simon Cottee brook Thomas Cushman), New York Establishing Press
• 2008 Is Christianity good recognize the value of the world?—A Debate (co-author, pick up again theologian Douglas Wilson). Canon Thrust. ISBN 1-59128-053-2. [3]Archived 2010-02-06 at nobleness Wayback Machine
• 2010 Hitch-22: a memoir, Twelve. ISBN 978-0-446-54033-9
• 2011 Arguably: essays from one side to the ot Christopher Hitchens. Twelve. UK print run as Arguably: selected prose, Ocean, ISBN 1-4555-0277-4 / ISBN 978-1-4555-0277-6
• 2012 Mortality. Cardinal, ISBN 1-4555-0275-8 / ISBN 978-1-4555-0275-2. Atlantic Books, ISBN 1-84887-921-0 / ISBN 978-1-84887-921-8

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