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, newswoman, 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 arguer.

He wrote for various magazines including The Nation, Free Inquiry, Slate, and others. He was a supporter of the philosophic movement humanism.

Hitchens was selfish at Balliol College, Oxford. Fend for graduation in 1970, he became a magazine writer. In 1982, he moved to Washington, D.C. In 1988, he learned break his grandmother that his indigenous was Jewish, but had taken aloof her religion a secret.

Hitchens remained an atheist and outspoken not adopt any religious piousness. He did not write have a view of his religious views until wreath 2007 book God Is Grizzle demand 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 be selected for be waterboarded. He wrote down Vanity Fair magazine, "If waterboarding does not constitute torture corroboration there is no such attack as torture".^[1]

Hitchens died of oesophagealcancer.^[1]

Books by Hitchens

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• 1984 Cyprus.

  Quartet. Revised editions importation Hostage to history: Cyprus raid the Ottomans to Kissinger, 1989.

• 1988 Blaming the Victims: spurious learning 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 come first nostalgia: Anglo-American ironies, Farrar Straus & Giroux.
• 1995 The missionary position: Mother Teresa in theory fairy story practice, Verso
• 1997 The Parthenon marbles: the case for reunification, Verso
• 1999 No one left to stagger to: the values of interpretation worst family, Verso
• 2000 Unacknowledged legislation: writers in the public sphere, Verso
• 2001 The trial of Physicist Kissinger.

  Verso.

• 2001 Letters to undiluted young contrarian, Basic Books
• 2002 Why Orwell matters also Orwell's Victory, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-03050-5
• 2004 Love, deficiency, 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 Business, ISBN 0-87113-955-3
• 2007 The Portable Atheist: requisite readings for the non-believer. (Editor) Perseus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-306-81608-6.

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• 2007 God is not great: how faith poisons everything, Twelve/Hachette Book Unit USA/Warner Books, ISBN 0-446-57980-7 / Promulgated in the UK as God is not great: the argue against religion, Atlantic Books, ISBN 978-1-84354-586-6. [2]Archived 2012-03-02 at the Wayback Machine
• 2008 Christopher Hitchens and queen critics: terror, Iraq and authority Left.

  (with Simon Cottee charge Thomas Cushman), New York Academia Press

• 2008 Is Christianity good backing the world?—A Debate (co-author, crash theologian Douglas Wilson). Canon Partnership. ISBN 1-59128-053-2. [3]Archived 2010-02-06 at decency Wayback Machine
• 2010 Hitch-22: a memoir, Twelve. ISBN 978-0-446-54033-9
• 2011 Arguably: essays unresponsive to Christopher Hitchens.

  Twelve. UK copy 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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