Christopher Hitchens Tribute

Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 -- 15 December 2011) was a British-American author, polemicist, and journalist. Hitchens contributed to New Statesman, The Nation, The Atlantic, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement and Vanity Fair. He was the author of twelve books and five collections of essays, and concentrated on a range of subjects, including politics, literature and religion. A staple of talk shows and lecture circuits, his confrontational style of debate made him both a la