Christopher Hitchens Dies at 62

Friday, December 16, 2011
Author, journalist and bon vivant Christopher Hitchens died on Thursday at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. The cause of death was pneumonia, a complication of the esophageal cancer he was diagnosed with in 2010, just after the debut of his memoir, Hitch-22.Vanity Fair, where Hitchens had been a contributing editor since 1992, offered up a beautiful, if brief, memoriam within a