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'''Christopher Eric Hitchens''' (born 13 April 1949, died 15 December 2011) was an English-American author and journalist whose books, essays and journalistic career spanned more than four decades. He was a columnist and literary critic at ''The Atlantic'', ''Vanity Fair'', ''Slate'', ''World Affairs'', ''The Nation'' and ''Free Inquiry'', and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. He was a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. In 2005, he was voted the world's fifth top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll.
He was best known
He died on December 15, 2011 from complications relating to oesophageal cancer.
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