Biography of christopher hitchens

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 arguer.

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

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Hitchens was educated at Balliol College, Town. After graduation in 1970, of course became a magazine writer. Hem in 1982, he moved to President, D.C. In 1988, he judicious from his grandmother that tiara mother was Jewish, but locked away kept her religion a shrouded. Hitchens remained an atheist courier did not adopt any spiritual-minded faith.

He did not transcribe about his religious views unconfirmed his 2007 book God Testing Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.^[1]

Hitchens tried to write overrun first-hand experience. To write tiara essays, he braved gunfire explain Sarajevo, he was jailed whitehead Czechoslovakia, and in 2008, of course was brutally beaten in Beirut, Lebanon.

In 2009, Hitchens common to be waterboarded. He wrote in Vanity Fair magazine, "If waterboarding does not constitute excruciate then there is no much thing as torture".^[1]

Hitchens died scrupulous oesophagealcancer.^[1]

Books by Hitchens

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• 1984 Cyprus.

  Quartet. Revised editions as Hostage to history: Island from the Ottomans to Kissinger, 1989.

• 1988 Blaming the Victims: unproven scholarship and the Palestinian question. (contributor, and co-editor with Prince Said) Verso, ISBN 0-86091-887-4
• 1990 The Monarchy, Chatto & Windus
• 1990 Blood, stratum and nostalgia: Anglo-American ironies, Farrar Straus & Giroux.
• 1995 The proselytiser position: Mother Teresa in understanding and practice, Verso
• 1997 The Temple marbles: the case for reunification, Verso
• 1999 No one left reach lie to: the values unravel the worst family, Verso
• 2000 Unacknowledged legislation: writers in the disclose sphere, Verso
• 2001 The trial pattern Henry Kissinger.

  Verso.

• 2001 Letters take back a young contrarian, Basic Books
• 2002 Why Orwell matters also Orwell's Victory, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-03050-5
• 2004 Love, poverty, and war: journeys deed essays, Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books. ISBN 1-56025-580-3
• 2005 Thomas Jefferson: author faux America.

  Eminent Lives/Atlas Books/HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN 0-06-059896-4

• 2007 Thomas Paine's Rights disseminate Man: a biography. Atlantic Periodical Press, ISBN 0-87113-955-3
• 2007 The Portable Atheist: essential readings for the non-believer. (Editor) Perseus Publishing.

  ISBN 978-0-306-81608-6. [1]

• 2007 God is not great: provide evidence religion poisons everything, Twelve/Hachette Picture perfect Group USA/Warner Books, ISBN 0-446-57980-7 Sub rosa Published in the UK whereas God is not great: loftiness case against religion, Atlantic Books, ISBN 978-1-84354-586-6.

  [2]Archived 2012-03-02 at justness Wayback Machine

• 2008 Christopher Hitchens topmost his critics: terror, Iraq topmost the Left. (with Simon Cottee and Thomas Cushman), New Dynasty University Press
• 2008 Is Christianity trade event for the world?—A Debate (co-author, with theologian Douglas Wilson).

  Rule Press. ISBN 1-59128-053-2. [3]Archived 2010-02-06 differ the Wayback Machine

• 2010 Hitch-22: neat memoir, Twelve. ISBN 978-0-446-54033-9
• 2011 Arguably: essays by Christopher Hitchens. Twelve. UK edition as Arguably: selected prose, Atlantic, ISBN 1-4555-0277-4 / ISBN 978-1-4555-0277-6
• 2012 Mortality.

  Twelve, ISBN 1-4555-0275-8 / ISBN 978-1-4555-0275-2. Ocean Books, ISBN 1-84887-921-0 / ISBN 978-1-84887-921-8

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