HITCHENS, Christopher

Christopher HITCHENS (1949 - 2011) was a prolific author, columnist, editor, and book critic, writing on issues ranging from politics, to religion, to the nature of debate itself. He was a regular contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, Slate, Harper's, and numerous other publications, as well as the recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction and the National Magazine Award. Hitchens’s 2007 manifesto God Is Not Great was a # 1 New York Times bestseller and a National Book Award finalist. (Source: Letters to a Young Contrarian, 2005, Basic Books.)