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December 16, 2011

Author, Columnist Christopher Hitchens Dies at 62 
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The author and columnist Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62.
Hitchens was a long-time columnist for The Nation magazine and Vanity
Fair. He left The Nation not long after coming out as a supporter of the
Iraq War. A prolific author, Hitchen's books included, "The Trial of
Henry Kissinger" and the atheist manifesto, "God Is Not Great."



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