Christopher Hitchens: Author and Critic of God Is Not Great Dies at 62

Christopher Hitchens was a British-American author and journalist. Born on April 13, 1949, in Portsmouth, England, he studied at Oxford and moved to the United States in 1981.

He wrote for Vanity Fair, The Nation and Slate and authored books including God Is Not Great (2007), a best-selling attack on religion, and The Trial of Henry Kissinger. He was a leading figure of the New Atheism and a supporter of the Iraq war.

He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2010 and wrote about his illness in the memoir Mortality. Hitchens died in Houston, Texas, on December 15, 2011, at age 62.

Achievements: Author of God Is Not Great, Vanity Fair columnist.

Birth: April 13, 1949 - Portsmouth, England.

Profession: Author and journalist.

Interesting Facts: He wrote the memoir Hitch-22.