Christopher Hitchens Dead at 62

Christopher Hitchens, writer and cultural critic, died on Thursday at the age of 62 from complications of cancer of the esophagus.

From NPR:

Christopher Eric Hitchens was born in 1949 — the son of a British naval commander and a navy nurse — and by his own account was trained to join the British elite. He studied at a prestigious private school and then at Oxford, picking up along the way a love of smoking, drinking, politics, philosophy and argument. In 2010, Hitchens reviewed his life’s path on NPR’s Talk of the Nation as he talked about his latest memoir.