Christopher Hitchens

Author, journalist, and literary critic

Bio

Writer, broadcaster and polemicist, Christopher Hitchens is author of the bestselling book God is not Great (2007). He is an outspoken atheist and is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society. After graduating from the University of Oxford, he worked for the Times Higher Education Supplement before moving to The New Statesman. He then emigrated to America, where he worked for The Nation. He has written for a number of other publications, including Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic, for whom he writes a monthly review of books.

Among Hitchens' other books are Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (2005), and Why Orwell Matters (2002). He received the 1991 Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction, and the 2007 National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary for his work at Vanity Fair. In 2005, Hitchens was named as one of the "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect magazine.

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  The Catholic Church has perpetrated horrific crimes

  19 Oct 2009

  22 min

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  Christopher Hitchens – The morals of an atheist

  23 Aug 2007

  20 min 53 sec

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  Pre-emption does not run counter to international law

  13 Sep 2004

  15 min 46 sec

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  Martin Amis in conversation with Christopher Hitchens

  01 Feb 2007

  1 hr 19 min

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  For: We'd be better off without religion

  27 Mar 2007

  13 min 56 sec

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  Christopher Hitchens discusses Saul Bellow

  01 Feb 2007

  11 min 25 sec