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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
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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.
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'I am not fighting or battling cancer - it is fighting me'
August 19, 2012Posted by Tom at 08:27 0 comments
Labels: 2012, battle, cancer, Carol Blue, Christopher Hitchens, Daily Mail, Peter Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens takes on new drug regime in hope of cancer cure
January 26, 2011
By Ephraim Hardcastle
"Buoyed by a visit by his friend, playwright Sir Tom Stoppard – and a note of encouragement from ex-President George W Bush whom he’s often mocked..
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1350588/Christopher-Hitchens-takes-new-drug-regime-hope-cancer-cure.html#ixzz1C6s9LSgp
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Labels: 2011, cancer, Christopher Hitchens, Daily Mail
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