Always interesting & often provocative, may he rest in peace. I will miss his contributions.
Christopher Hitchens, Prolific Columnist, Is Dead at 62
Christopher Hitchens, a slashing polemicist in the tradition of Thomas Paine and
George Orwell who trained his sights on targets as various as Henry Kissinger,
the British monarchy and Mother Teresa, wrote a best-seller attacking religious
belief, and dismayed his former comrades on the left by enthusiastically
supporting the American-led war in Iraq, died Thursday at the M. D. Anderson
Cancer Center in Houston. He was 62.
The cause was pneumonia, a complication of esophageal cancer, said the magazine
Vanity Fair, which announced the death. In recent days Mr. Hitchens had stopped
treatment and entered hospice care at the Houston hospital. He learned he had
cancer while on a publicity tour in 2010 for his memoir, “Hitch-22,” and began
writing and, on television, speaking about his illness frequently.
“In whatever kind of a ‘race’ life may be, I have very abruptly become a
finalist,” Mr. Hitchens wrote in Vanity Fair, for which he was a contributing
editor.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62-obituary.html?emc=na
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