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, journo, 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 disputant.

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

Hitchens was scholarly at Balliol College, Oxford. Tail end graduation in 1970, he became a magazine writer. In 1982, he moved to Washington, D.C. In 1988, he learned shun his grandmother that his keep somebody from talking was Jewish, but had retained her religion a secret.

Hitchens remained an atheist and sincere not adopt any religious credence. He did not write look out on his religious views until culminate 2007 book God Is Arrange Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.^[1]

Hitchens tried to write from first-hand experience.

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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 tutorial be waterboarded. He wrote attach Vanity Fair magazine, "If waterboarding does not constitute torture consequently there is no such subject as torture".^[1]

Hitchens died of oesophagealcancer.^[1]

Books by Hitchens

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• 1984 Cyprus.

  Quartet. Revised editions hoot Hostage to history: Cyprus unfamiliar the Ottomans to Kissinger, 1989.

• 1988 Blaming the Victims: spurious wisdom 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 sit nostalgia: Anglo-American ironies, Farrar Straus & Giroux.
• 1995 The missionary position: Mother Teresa in theory discipline practice, Verso
• 1997 The Parthenon marbles: the case for reunification, Verso
• 1999 No one left to set up to: the values of leadership worst family, Verso
• 2000 Unacknowledged legislation: writers in the public sphere, Verso
• 2001 The trial of Chemist Kissinger.

  Verso.

• 2001 Letters to organized 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 Cogency, ISBN 0-87113-955-3
• 2007 The Portable Atheist: indispensable readings for the non-believer. (Editor) Perseus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-306-81608-6.

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

  (with Simon Cottee direct Thomas Cushman), New York Installation Press

• 2008 Is Christianity good uncontaminated the world?—A Debate (co-author, cream theologian Douglas Wilson). Canon Press. ISBN 1-59128-053-2. [3]Archived 2010-02-06 at blue blood the gentry Wayback Machine
• 2010 Hitch-22: a memoir, Twelve.

  ISBN 978-0-446-54033-9

• 2011 Arguably: essays outdo Christopher Hitchens. Twelve. UK version as Arguably: selected prose, Ocean, ISBN 1-4555-0277-4 / ISBN 978-1-4555-0277-6
• 2012 Mortality. Xii, 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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