Daily Mail Online
As he faced death from cancer, author and journalist Christopher Hitchens kept his wry sense of humour to the very end, it emerged today.
He used a hospital food tray as a desk for his computer to record his last thoughts about the illness which claimed his life at 62.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2190200/I-fighting-battling-cancer--fighting-Last-words-author-Christopher-Hitchens-faced-death.html
Christopher Hitchens (1949 - 2011) was an Anglo-American author and journalist. His books made him a prominent public intellectual and a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits. He was a columnist and literary critic at Vanity Fair, Slate, The Atlantic, World Affairs, The Nation, Free Inquiry and a variety of other media outlets. He was named one of the world's "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Britain's Prospect.

Popular Posts
-
Mr Steve Wasserman, Christopher Hitchens' literary agent, kindly replied to my query about a possible memorial. Posted with permission. ...
-
At reddit.com there are comments on Hitchens having breathing issues at the airport. This would explain the cancellations. Hopefully it'...
-
Only a short clip from the conversation. This is embedded from the 92nd Street Y Channel. Why not right-click, watch it on YouTube and post ...
-
By Lawrence Krauss The world, which Christopher Hitchens would have happily admitted was already pretty dark, got a little darker yester...
-
Some DH visitors seem to have an urge to post and express themselves quite off topic to published posts. I've added a comment box where ...
-
The iconoclast Christopher Hitchens loved life and delighted in "doing and thinking and writing all the things that he had always don...
-
Time has come to publish the last post on this site. I've been posting links and articles for three years, and it's been great. I a...
-
By Peter Hitchens I can’t really claim that I never notice the extraordinarily spiteful attacks on me which come from one particular qua...
-
New Statesman: "You may need to set aside the rest of your Saturday to get through this, but here in full is the transcript of the long...
-
The professor's pronouncements about Osama Bin Laden are offensive and ignorant. By Christopher Hitchens "Anybody visiting th...

'I am not fighting or battling cancer - it is fighting me'
August 19, 2012Posted by Tom at 08:27
Labels: 2012, battle, cancer, Carol Blue, Christopher Hitchens, Daily Mail, Peter Hitchens
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment