The influential writer and cultural critic died Thursday at the age of 62 from complications of cancer of the esophagus. Hitchens confronted his disease in part by writing, bringing the same ...

Christopher Hitchens, the author, writer and Vanity Fair contributing editor, has died, the magazine announced late Thursday. He was 62. Hitchens, who had been battling esophageal cancer since ...

Christopher Hitchens, an English writer whose powerful persuasive essays took on moral and religious hypocrisy the world over, died at 62 in a hospital in Houston.

July 2, 2010— -- Author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, 61, announced this week he would cut short a book tour for his new memoir, "Hitch-22," because he will undergo chemotherapy for ...

Christopher Hitchens, the polarizing and intellectually supple political columnist and cultural critic, died Thursday of pneumonia, a complication arising from esophageal cancer. He was 62.

Christopher Hitchens, the maverick author, caustic critic and cable-television gladiator whose long list of targets included Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger and even Mother Theresa and organized ...

Will Christopher Hitchens be remembered as an orator or a writer, asks Jason Cowley, editor of the New Statesman. Jason Cowley Published Dec. 16 2011 7:57AM EST ...

Christopher Hitchens, the author, essayist and pundit, has died after a lengthy, public battle with cancer. He was 62.

Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging British-American author and essayist whose polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other provocations established him as one of his ...

Journalist and essayist Christopher Hitchens has died from complications of cancer of the esophagus. He was 62. The writer has been closely identified with leftist ideas but has traveled across ...