Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens (born April 13, 1949, Portsmouth, England—died December 15, 2011, Houston, Texas, U.S.) was a British American author, critic, and bon vivant whose trenchant polemics on politics and religion positioned him at the forefront of public intellectual life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Hitchens was a vocal atheist, and one of his best-known works is God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (2007). He also wrote critically of various public...