Friday, December 16, 2011

Christopher Hitchens Died at 62

British-born journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who created the us his home and backed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died on Thursday at the age of sixty two.

Christopher Hitchens Died at 62
Christopher Hitchens married Eleni Meleagrou, a Greek Cypriot, in 1981. they have a pair of youngsters, Alexander and Sophia. In 1989 Hitchens left Meleagrou for Carol Blue, an yank author. they have one daughter, Antonia.

Hitchens died in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of cancer of the esophagus, vainness truthful magazine said.

"Christopher Hitchens - the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant - died nowadays at the age of sixty two," vainness truthful said.

A heavy smoker and drinker, Hitchens restrict a book tour for his memoir "Hitch 22" last year to endure chemotherapy once being diagnosed with cancer.

As a journalist, war correspondent and literary critic, Hitchens carved out a name for barbed repartee, scathing critiques of public figures and a fierce intelligence.

In his 2007 book "God isn't Great: How faith Poisons Everything," Hitchens took on major religions along with his trenchant atheism. He argued that faith was the supply of all tyranny which several of the world's evils are exhausted the name of faith.

The son of a British naval officer, Hitchens studied at Oxford University and worked as literary critic for the New Statesman magazine in London before moving to ny to figure as a journalist in 1981. He settled in Washington the subsequent year, initially as correspondent for the left-wing magazine the state. He retained his British citizenship when he became an yank citizen in 2007.

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