(CBS/AP) Christopher Hitchens, a Washington, D.C.-based author, essayist and polemicist, died Thursday night at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of his ...

Christopher Hitchens, a Washington, D.C.-based author, essayist and polemicist who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died Thursday night at M.D ...

Here is how I came to hate Christopher Hitchens. Hate—as in envy. In the early 1980s, as a twentysomething trying to start a career as a crusading journalist, I was fortunate enough to share an ...

Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging British-American author and essayist whose polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other provocations established him as one of his ...

Even Christopher Hitchens’s detractors would concede him two great qualities: honesty and bravery. Hitchens spoke the truth as he understood the truth, without regard to whom he might please and ...

Christopher Hitchens, the author, writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor, has died, the magazine announced late Thursday. He was 62. Hitchens, who had been battling esophageal cancer since ...

Regarding "Christopher Hitchens: Religious skeptic and acerbic master of the contrarian essay" [Metro, Dec. 17]: When Christopher Hitchens was a guest lecturer for my sister's graduate class at ...

Christopher Hitchens, as Goldblog readers undoubtedly know, has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. I've been e-mailing a bit with him over the past couple of days, and he sounds like the same ...

Christopher Hitchens Stands Trial With great vim and gusto, a new book dissects the ever-controversial Christopher Hitchens. Gregory Shupak January 17, 2013 ...

Christopher Hitchens, who died at the age of 62 last week, impacted many people with his provocative prose and sharp wit.But as a long-time resident of the Washington, D.C., area, and frequent ...

Tributes to the late Christopher Hitchens, who died seven years ago yesterday, are trending on Twitter. Hardly surprising. Hitchens had one of those rare, magnetic personalities and a genius for ...