Iconoclastic journalist Christopher Hitchens, who died from esophageal cancer in December 2011, chronicled his battle with the disease — his 18... When a consummately articulate, boundlessly bold ...

Impossible as it is to believe, Christopher Hitchens, the enfant terrible of Anglo-American politics and letters, would have turned 75 today, almost 13 years since his premature death from esophageal ...

Best-selling author, columnist, and lovably contentious contrarian Christopher Hitchens revealed yesterday that he has been diagnosed with esophageal cancer, which has forced him to suspend his book ...

Christopher Hitchens, a sharp-witted writer, critic and pundit, died Thursday at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston of pneumonia related to esophageal cancer. He was 62. Hitchens was an ...

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Nothing sharpened Christopher Hitchens' mind like cancer. He wrote the best, most piercing, most clarifying prose of his career as he faced down the specter of his own ...

Christopher Hitchens, the author and essayist who died on Thursday, was known for his assertive atheism. From scathing books about Mother Teresa... For Hitchens, In Life And Death, An Unaware Cosmos ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British-born author Christopher Hitchens on Wednesday cut short a book tour to undergo chemotherapy, which several media outlets reported was because the heavy smoker has been ...

Cancer weakened but did not soften Christopher Hitchens. He did not repent or forgive or ask for pity. As if granted diplomatic immunity, his mind's eye looked plainly upon the attack and ...

One of the last things Thomas Peters does each day is face the Cross of St. Benedict that hangs over his bed and says his evening prayers. The sobering final phrases of the Hail Mary prayer have ...

When a consummately articulate, boundlessly bold journalist stricken with stage 4 esophageal cancer reports from the front lines about facing what he calls, among other things, "hello darkness my old ...