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Also Known As	Christopher Eric Hitchens
Born	April 13, 1949 • Portsmouth • England
Died	December 15, 2011 (aged 62) • Houston • Texas
Notable Works	“And Yet…...” • “Arguably” • “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything” • “Hitch-22” • “Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger” • “Mortality” • “No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton” • “The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice” • “The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol and Zionism” • “The Trial of Henry Kissinger” • “Thomas Jefferson: Author of America” • “Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man: A Biography” • “Why Orwell Matters”

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