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2. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2006/10/16He Knew He Was Right | The New Yorker

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   Oct 8, 2006 · Hitchens flew alone to Greece, to learn that, in a suicide pact, his mother had taken an overdose of sleeping pills in a bedroom of the Georges V Hotel, while, in the bathroom, her companion had ...

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4. www.npr.org › 2010/06/05 › 127495653Christopher Hitchens' Unusual And Radical Life : NPR

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   Jun 5, 2010 · Essayist Christopher Hitchens has led a colorful life, from the tragic death of his mother, his days at Oxford and an infamous encounter with Margaret Thatcher. Host Scott Simon talks to Hitchens ...

5. www.thetimes.co.uk › article › hitch-22-a-memoir-byHitch 22: A Memoir by Christopher Hitchens - The Times & The ...

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   Saturday May 22 2010, 1.01am, The Times. In 1973, at the age of 24, Christopher Hitchens was called to Athens, where his mother had committed suicide: she had left his father for a defrocked ...

6. reason.com › 2010/07/09 › the-defectorThe Defector - Reason.com

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   Jul 9, 2010 · Christopher Hitchens' memoir details a lifetime in combat journalism ... it is the personal narrative that drives Hitch-22—the beautifully rendered chapter on his mother's suicide is some of his ...

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7. www.esquire.com › news-politics › newsChris Hitchens and the Suicidal Priest, by Mark Warren - Esquire

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   Dec 16, 2011 · Chris Hitchens and the Suicidal Priest. One day about a ten years ago, maybe a couple years more, I received a letter in the mail, pitching a story for the magazine. The writer of the letter said ...

8. www.independent.co.uk › news › obituariesChristopher Hitchens: Writer and journalist renowned for his

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   Dec 17, 2011 · The breakdown of his parents' marriage, and his mother's suicide with her lover in Athens in 1973, affected Christopher deeply, as he movingly described in the memoir Hitch-22, published in 2010 ...

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   Did a friend read a newspaper article about Mrs Hitchens' death?

   • In the fall of 1973, a friend called Hitchens one morning in his London apartment to say she’d just read a newspaper article about the death of a Mrs. Hitchens in Athens.

   He Knew He Was Right | The New Yorker

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   What did Christopher Hitchens say about death?

   • Christopher Hitchens often addressed death and mortality in his essays, debates and lectures. In fact, he wrote an entire novel on death, with the title simply being Mortality, which was written specifically as a look at the disease he was suffering from, that of esophageal cancer. However, he spoke of death often.

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   Was Christopher Hitchens wrong about Mother Teresa?

   • Atheist Christopher Hitchens Was Wrong About Mother Teresa, Here’s Why… Christopher Hitchens, a man who was at the forefront of the New Atheism movement, once called Mother Teresa “a demagogue, an obscurantist and a servant of earthly powers.”

   Atheist Christopher Hitchens Was Wrong About Mother Teresa

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   Who was Christopher Hitchens?

   • Until not long ago, Christopher Hitchens, the British-born journalist, was a valued asset of the American left: an intellectual willing to show his teeth in the cause of righteousness.

   He Knew He Was Right | The New Yorker

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10. www.nytimes.com › 2010/06/06 › magazineThe Contrarian - The New York Times

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    Jun 2, 2010 · Questions for Christopher Hitchens. The Contrarian. Share full article. ... Your mother committed suicide, in a pact with a lover, in 1973. Did she suffer from lifelong depression?