His mother had been a Wren, a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service. Their parents, Eric Ernest Hitchens (1909–1987) and Yvonne Jean Hitchens (née Hickman 1921–1973), met in Scotland when serving in the Royal Navy during World War II. Hitchens was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, the elder of two boys his brother, Peter, became a socially conservative journalist. Life and career Early life and education Hitchens died from complications related to oesophageal cancer in December 2011, at the age of 62. Hitchens notably wrote critical biographies of Catholic nun Mother Teresa in The Missionary Position, President Bill Clinton in No One Left To Lie To, and American diplomat Henry Kissinger in The Trial of Henry Kissinger. The dictum "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence" has become known as Hitchens' razor. He argued for free expression, scientific discovery, and the separation of church and state, arguing that they were superior to religion as an ethical code of conduct for human civilisation. Hitchens described himself as an anti-theist and saw all religions as false, harmful and authoritarian. Bush in 2004, and viewed Islamism as the principal threat to the Western world. During the 2000s, he argued for the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, endorsed the re-election campaign of George W. Beginning in the 1990s, and particularly after 9/11, his politics were widely viewed as drifting to the right, but Hitchens objected to being called conservative. He supported gun rights and same-sex rights while opposing the War on Drugs. Hitchens held complex views on abortion being ethically opposed to it in most instances, and believing that a fetus was entitled to personhood, while holding ambiguous, changing views on its legality. Hitchens has emphasized the centrality of the American Revolution and Constitution to his political philosophy. However, he also supported the United States in the Kosovo War. He was critical of aspects of American foreign policy, including its involvement in Vietnam, Chile and East Timor. Originally describing himself as a democratic socialist, he was a member of various socialist organisations in his early life, including the International Socialists. Hitchens's political views evolved greatly throughout his life. His epistemological razor is still of mark in philosophy and law. Known as one of the four horsemen of New Atheism, he gained prominence as a columnist and speaker. In the early 1980s, he immigrated to the United States and wrote for The Nation and Vanity Fair. Author of 18 books on faith, culture, politics, and literature, he was born and educated in England, graduating in the 1970s from Oxford. Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British-American author and journalist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential atheists of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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