Christopher Hitchens
Hitchens tahun 2007
Lahir	Christopher Eric Hitchens 13 April 1949 (umur 75) Portsmouth, Hampshire, Inggris
Meninggal	15 Desember 2011(2011-12-15) (umur 62) Houston, Texas, Amerika Serikat
Kebangsaan	Amerika/Britania
Almamater	Balliol College, Oxford
Pekerjaan	Penulis dan pundit
Suami/istri	Carol Blue (1989–sekarang) Eleni Meleagrou (1981–1989)
Anak	Alexander, Sophia, Antonia
Kerabat	Peter Hitchens (saudara)
Penghargaan (2012) LennonOno Grant for Peace (en) (2011) Penghargaan Richard Dawkins (2007) Emperor Has No Clothes Award (en) (2007) Great Immigrants Award (en) (1991) Lannan Literary Awards (en) PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (en)

Christopher Eric Hitchens (lahir 13 April 1949 di Portsmouth, Hampshire, Inggris; meninggal 15 Desember 2011 di Houston, Texas, Amerika Serikat) adalah seorang pengarang dan jurnalis^[5] Inggris-Amerika.^[6] Ia pernah menjadi kolumnis dan kritikus sastra di majalah The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Slate, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry, dan menjadi anggota media di Hoover Institution pada September 2008.^[7] Hitchens sering kali hadir dalam acara televisi dan seminar. Pada tahun 2005, berdasarkan pemilihan di majalah Prospect/Foreign Policy, ia dinobatkan sebagai intelektual umum kelima dunia.^[8][9]

Hitchens adalah seorang antiteis. Ia berpendapat bahwa konsep Tuhan merupakan kepercayaan totalitarian yang menghancurkan kebebasan seseorang. Hitchens menulis mengenai ateisme dan kritiknya terhadap agama dalam bukunya yang berjudul God Is Not Great. Pada tanggal 15 Desember 2011, Christopher Hitchens meninggal di MD Anderson Cancer Center di Houston, Texas. Penyebab kematiannya adalah radang paru akibat komplikasi kanker yang dideritanya.^[10]

• 1987 Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles, Chatto and Windus (UK)/Hill and Wang (US, 1988); 1997 UK Verso edition as The Elgin Marbles: Should They Be Returned to Greece? (with essays by Robert Browning and Graham Binns)
• 1988 Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (contributor; co-editor with Edward Said) Verso, ISBN 0-86091-887-4 Reissued, 2001
• 1990 "The Monarchy", Chatto & Windus Ltd
• 1995 The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, Verso
• 1999 No One Left to Lie To, Verso
• 2000 Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere, Verso
• 2001 The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Verso.
• 2001 Letters to a Young Contrarian, Basic Books
• 2002 Why Orwell Matters also Orwell's Victory, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-03050-5
• 2004 Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays, Thunder's Mouth, Nation Books, ISBN 1-56025-580-3
• 2005 Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, Eminent Lives/Atlas Books/HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN 0-06-059896-4
• 2007 The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer, [Editor] Perseus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-306-81608-6
• 2007 God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA/Warner Books, ISBN 0-446-57980-7 / Published in the UK as God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion, Atlantic Books, ISBN 978-1-84354-586-6
• 2008 Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq and the Left (with Simon Cottee and Thomas Cushman), New York University Press
• 2008 Is Christianity Good for the World? – A Debate (co-author, with Douglas Wilson), Canon Press, ISBN 1-59128-053-2
• 2010 Hitch-22: A Memoir, Hachette Book Group, ISBN 978-0-446-54033-9
• 2011 Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens, Twelve. UK edition as Arguably: Selected Prose, Atlantic, 1-4555-0277-4 / 978-1-4555-0277-6

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• Christopher Hitchens di IMDb (dalam bahasa Inggris)
• Christopher Hitchens di Charlie Rose in 2007
• Christopher Hitchens di National Public Radio in 2010