Photo from Hitchen's book, Hitch-22. Share. The place where Christopher Hitchens spent his last few weeks was hardly bookish, but he made it his own. Close to downtown Houston, ...

Christopher Hitchens took on religion, totalitarianism and his own legacy in his final interview. Hitchens spoke with fellow atheist Richard Dawkins in October, two months before his death last ...

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Hitchens has, as Blue writes, so heartbreakingly, “the last word. Time after time, Christopher has the last word.” Robert Wiersema is a Victoria-based book seller and author.

The iconoclast Christopher Hitchens loved life and delighted in "doing and thinking and writing all the things that he had always done, up until the very end," says his widow, Carol Blue.

In the last 18 months of his life, Hitchens reported with little sentimentality or self-pity from a place he called "Tumorville." He was 62 when he died of esophageal cancer on Dec. 15, 2011.

WASHINGTON, DC -MAY 17: We profile Writer and journalist Christopher Hitchens for a Manuel Roig-Franzia profile pegged to the release of his memoir. Photos taken on May 17, 2010 in Washington, DC.