- Babysat actress Olivia Wilde when she was a child.
- At the suggestion of his boss, "Vanity Fair" editor Graydon Carter, Hitchens agreed to undergo the controversial "waterboarding" interrogation procedure for purposes of hands-on research for the magazine. Even though Hitchens was professionally supervised throughout the session and could stop the procedure at any time, he lasted less than 20 seconds before giving the hand-signal to terminate the experiment. (2008)
- He married a Greek Cypriot, Eleni Meleagiou. He is survived by their two children, Alexander Hitchens and Sophia Hitchens; his second wife, Carol Blue Hitchens and their daughter, Antonia Hitchens; and his brother, Peter Hitchens.
- Studied at Oxford University.
- Came to the United States in 1981.
- He died at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.
- Older brother of Peter Hitchens.
- Contributing editor, Vanity Fair.
- He was summoned to Athens, Greece in 1973, after his mother, who had left his father, committed suicide with her male partner. In 1987, he learned that his mother was Jewish, which she concealed from her husband and family.
- He moved to the United States in 1981 where he became a naturalized citizen.
- His writing took him to Northern Ireland, Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain and Argentina in the 1970s reporting for The Nation, The New Statesman, and other British publications.
- He left The Nation publication in 2003 after he publicly announced his support of the American invasion of Iraq.
- Son of a career officer in the British Royal Navy who turned bookkeeper.
- His family sent him to private schools in Tavistock in Tavistock, Devon, England and Cambridge School in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. He graduated from Balliol College at Oxford University in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England in 1970.
- He considered Thomas Jefferson to be a personal hero of his.
- His influences included George Orwell, Karl Marx, Noam Chomsky, Gore Vidal, Bertrand Russell, Albert Camus, Oscar Wilde, Thomas Paine, Aldous Huxley and Salman Rushdie among others.
- Is one of the Four Horsemen of the Non Apocalypse with Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins.
- Lampooned by comedy duo Mitchell and Webb.
- There was a robot called "Hitchbot", although it wasn't an Electronic Atheist, it was for use in a Social Experiment about Hitchhiking.
- He was good friends with Ian McEwan.
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