Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens, a veteran British journalist, is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a former contributor to The Nation, where he wrote a wide-ranging, biweekly column from 1982 to 2002. He is the author of many books including The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (Verso, 1995), No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family (Verso, 2000) and The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Verso, May 2001), which its excerpts appeared in Harper’s and the Guardian. He co-edited with Edward Said Blaming The Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestine Question (Verso,1988). His most recent books include A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq (Plume Books, 2003), Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship (Pub Group West, 2004) and his new collection, Love, Poverty and War: Essays and Journeys (Thunder’s Mouth, Nation Books; 2004). Over the years he has written for a variety of different publications, including Vanity Fair, The Nation, Harper’s, The New Yorker, Slate and The Atlantic Monthly. He also regularly contributed to such publications as The London Review of Books and New Left Review. He is a visiting professor of liberal studies at New School University. He lives in Washington, D.C.