Christopher Hitchens, the author and essayist who died on Thursday, was known for his assertive atheism. From scathing books about Mother Teresa... For Hitchens, In Life And Death, An Unaware Cosmos ...

Christopher Hitchens, a sharp-witted writer, critic and pundit, died Thursday at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia related to esophageal cancer. He was 62. Hitchens was an ...

He will come to feel increasingly like a member of the audience in the theater of his own illness. I've been there. ... Dying isn't so bad. It's getting sick and dying that's the hard part. I had ...