Christopher Hitchens, Who Wrote of God, Cancer, Dies at 62

Christopher Hitchens, the British-born journalist at home in the middle of U.S. political disputes including Bill Clinton’s infidelity, the war in Iraq and the role of organized religion, has died. He was 62.

Hitchens died yesterday at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, Vanity Fair magazine reported on its website. That was the same day the U.S. marked the end of its nine-year war in Iraq, which first brought Hitchens to the attention of many American readers.