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Mortality is a 2012, posthumously published book by Anglo-American writer Christopher Hitchens.It comprises seven essays which first appeared in Vanity Fair concerning his struggle with esophageal cancer, with which he was diagnosed during his 2010 book tour [1] and which killed him in December 2011. [2]
Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British and American author and journalist. [2] [3] He was the author of 18 books on faith, religion, culture, politics, and literature. He was born and educated in Britain, graduating in the 1970s from Oxford with a degree in philosophy, politics, and economics.
Hitch-22: A Memoir is a memoir written by author and journalist Christopher Hitchens.The book was published in May 2010 by Atlantic Books in the UK and June 2011 by Twelve, an imprint of Hachette Book Group USA, and was later nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
Writer and journalist Christopher Hitchens quoted from the song's lyrics in his last article for Vanity Fair, written shortly before his death from esophageal cancer. Hitchens posted at the top of his essay the verse of "It's Alright Ma" that ends with the words "That he who is not busy being born is busy dying". [26]
The Faith of Christopher Hitchens received a mixed critical reception. Nick Cohen, a friend of Hitchens, was strongly critical of the book in The Guardian. Cohen described it as "strange, spiteful", the "work of a true fanatic". Cohen is critical of the several attacks made by Taunton on friends of Hitchens.
Peter Bergen writes that any sober assessment of Henry Kissinger’s actual record must surely conclude that writer Christopher Hitchens was more right than not about deeming Kissinger a “war ...
“The loss of Peter’s wonderful brother, the great [author] Christopher Hitchens, still reverberates – an unmatched raconteur, writer, arguer, and bon vivant, and the world mourns Christopher ...
In May 2009 The Rage Against God was anticipated by Michael Gove, who wrote in The Times: . I long to see [Peter Hitchens] take the next stage in his writer's journey and examine, with his unsparing honesty, the rich human reality of the division he believes is now more important than the split between Left and Right—the deeper gulf between the restless progressive and the Christian pessimist.