Christopher Hitchens
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Christopher Eric Hitchens (April 13, 1949 Portsmouth, England) is a neo-conservative journalist, author and literary critic. Hitchens received degrees in philosophy, politics and economics from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1970. From 1971-1981, he worked in Britain as book reviewer for The Times newspaper. He emigrated to the United States in 1981, and has written regularly, or been a contributing editor for Harpers, Vanity Fair and the Nation. He is Jewish by matrilineal descent, although he did not discover this until he was 38 years old. He himself is an avowed atheist.
Christopher Hitchens was a member of the International Socialists and an active Trotskyist during his youth.
Writings
- Callaghan: The Road to Number Ten (Cassell, 1976)
- Hostage to History: Cyprus From the Ottomans to Kissinger (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989)
- Imperial Spoils: The Case of the Parthenon Marbles (Hill and Wang, 1989)
- Blood, Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990)
- The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Verso, 1995) as well as two collections including many Nation essays: *Prepared for the Worst (Hill and Wang, 1989)
- For the Sake of Argument: Essays & Minority Reports (Verso, 1993)
- No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family (Verso, 2000)
- God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion (Atlantic, 2007)
