Christopher Hitchens dies aged 62
Celebrated journalist, writer and unshakeable secularist has died from complications of oesophageal cancer
The writer, journalist and contrarian Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62 after crossing the border into the "land of malady" on being diagnosed with an oesophageal cancer in June 2010. Vanity Fair, for which he had written since 1992 and was made contributing editor, marked his death in a memorial article posted late on Thursday night.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Friday, 16 December, 2011
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