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| Christopher Hitchens dies after battle with cancer | |
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| British author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died, aged 62, according to Vanity Fair magazine. | British author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died, aged 62, according to Vanity Fair magazine. |
| He died from pneumonia, a complication of the oesophageal cancer he was suffering from, at a Texas hospital. | |
| Vanity Fair said there would "never be another like Christopher". | |
| He is survived by his wife, Carol Blue, and their daughter, Antonia, and his children from a previous marriage, Alexander and Sophia. | He is survived by his wife, Carol Blue, and their daughter, Antonia, and his children from a previous marriage, Alexander and Sophia. |
| Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter described the writer as someone "of ferocious intellect, who was as vibrant on the page as he was at the bar". | |
| "Those who read him felt they knew him, and those who knew him were profoundly fortunate souls." | "Those who read him felt they knew him, and those who knew him were profoundly fortunate souls." |
| Mr Hitchens was born in Portsmouth in 1949 and graduated from Oxford in 1970. | |
| He began his career as a journalist in Britain and later moved to New York, becoming contributing editor to Vanity Fair in November 1992. | |
| He was diagnosed with cancer in June 2010, and had documented his declining health in his Vanity Fair column. | |
| Prolific writer | |
| He wrote for numerous publications including The Times Literary Supplement, the Daily Express, the London Evening Standard, Newsday and The Atlantic. | |
| He was the author of 17 books, including The Trial of Henry Kissinger, God is not Great, How Religion Poisons Everything, and a memoir, Hitch-22. | |
| Arguably, a collection of his essays, was released this year. |