Christopher Eric Hitchens was born in 1949 — the son of a British naval commander and a navy nurse — and by his own account was trained to join the British elite.

Christopher Eric Hitchens is an author, journalist and literary critic. He has been a columnist at *Vanity Fair*, *The Atlantic*, *World Affairs*, *The Nation*, *Slate*, *Free Inquiry*, and a variety ...

He was born Christopher Eric Hitchens in Portsmouth, England, on April 13, 1949. The elder of two sons, he had a cool relationship with his father, Ernest, a commander in the British Royal Navy ...

Christopher Hitchens: 1949-2011 8 photos. Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, England, in 1949. His father, Eric, was a "purse-lipped" Navy veteran known as "The Commander"; ...

Vocal atheist Christopher Hitchens has completed writing his 400-page memoir, “Hitch-22.” Mr. Hitchens, a Briton, has gained a name as an outspoken essayist, author and columnist.

Editor’s Note: Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62. ... But for those just joining us, Christopher Hitchens was the older of two sons, born to Eric and Yvonne in April 1949.

Journalist and essayist Christopher Hitchens has died from complications of cancer of the esophagus. He was 62. The writer has been closely identified with leftist ideas but has traveled across ...

FOLKENFLIK: Christopher Eric Hitchens was born in 1949, the son of a British naval commander and a navy nurse, and by his own account was trained to join the British elite.

“Christopher is one of nature’s rebels. By which I mean that he has no automatic respect for anybody or anything.” He was born Christopher Eric Hitchens in Portsmouth, England, on April 13 ...

The influential writer and cultural critic Christopher Hitchens died on Thursday at the age of 62 from complications of cancer of the esophagus. Hitchens confronted his disease in part by writing ...

Hitchens confronted his disease in part by writing, bringing the same unsparing insight to his mortality that he had directed at so many other subjects. Writer Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62 ...