Christopher Hitchens was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and visiting professor in liberal studies at The New School in New York. He was the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over 30 books, including Why Orwell Matters, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America, and God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.
Hitchens died on December 15, 2011, at the age of sixty-two.
