Christopher Hitchens Dies at 62
Essayist Christopher Hitchens has died of pneumonia, stemming from his battle with esophageal cancer. He was 62. Vanity Fair editor-in-chief Graydon Carter, who worked with Hitchens for nearly two decades, was the first to pen an obit.
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Christopher was one of the first writers I called when I came to Vanity Fair in 1992. Six years before, I had called on him to write for Spy. That offer was ever so politely rejected. The Vanity Fair approach had a fee attached, though, and to my everlasting credit, he accepted and has been writing for the magazine ever since.
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