Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens was an English-American author, journalist, columnist, and public intellectual who wrote and/or edited over thirty books and countless essays.

Hitchens was a contributor for many high-profile publications, including New Statesman, Vanity Fair, The Nation, and The Atlantic. He was known for his bon vivant lifestyle and witticisms. 

Hitchens was a self-proclaimed antitheist, actively argued against religion of any kind in favor of free expression and scientific discovery. His book God Is Not Great was nominated for a National Book Award in 2007. He became a leading figure of the modern atheist movement and invited any religious leader to debate him. 

His outspoken and often controversial views scored him frequent appearances as a talking head on TV, made him a popular public speaker, and led him to participate in many well-publicized debates.

In his memoir, Hitch-22 (2010), Hitchens talks honestly and without embarrassment about the same-sex relationships that he had as a younger man. He claims that he slept with two future (male) ministers while at Oxford. He also said that he now only had sex with women, because his looks had “declined to the point where only women would go to bed with me.”^[1]

He was married twice. First to Eleni Meleagrou from 1981 to 1989 and later to Carol Blue from 1991 til his death in 2011.