WritersBorn April 13, 1949

Christopher Hitchens

British and American author and journalist

Born
April 13, 1949
Died
December 15, 2011 (aged 62)
Known as
journalist, writer, essayist, autobiographer, literary critic, political scientist

Christopher Eric Hitchens was a British and American author and journalist. Known as one of the "Four Horsemen" of New Atheism, he gained prominence as a columnist and speaker. Hitchens's epistemological razor, which states that "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence", is used in philosophy and law.

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