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Christopher Hitchens
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| 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, journalist, 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 debater.
He wrote for various magazines including The Nation, Free Inquiry, Slate, and others.
Christopher hitchens biography
He was a supporter of the philosophical movement humanism.
Hitchens was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. After graduation in 1970, he became a magazine writer. In 1982, he moved to Washington, D.C. In 1988, he learned from his grandmother that his mother was Jewish, but had kept her religion a secret.
Hitchens remained an atheist and did