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Born in 1949, Christopher Hitchens was a journalist, author and well known polemicist.
For his first ever book, Stephen Phillps signed a deal to release a book about Hitchen in 2022.
However Hitchens’s widow and his literary agent are discouraging friends and family from contributing towards Phillips’s research.
Stephen Phillips has signed a deal with publishing house W.W. Norton to write a book about the late British writer and polemicist Christopher Hitchens. Born in 1949 Hitchens was a journalist, author and speaker. His fluid writing, large persona and defiance of religious institutions made for a polarising intellectual.
Titled Pamphleteer: The Life and Times of Christopher Hitchens, the publisher bought the book from Phillips last year with the plan to release it in 2022. This is the author’s first book.
Hitchens Biography Proceeds, Against His Widowâs Wishes
Carol Blue-Hitchens and her late husbandâs literary agent are discouraging friends from participating in a book tentatively titled âPamphleteer: The Life and Times of Christopher Hitchens.â
Christopher Hitchens, whose books included âGod Is Not Greatâ and âThe Trial of Henry Kissinger,â died in 2011.Credit.Mark Mahaney for The New York Times
Published Feb. 4, 2021Updated Feb. 8, 2021
Stephen Phillips was doing dishes and listening to the podcast âA Life in Biographyâ one evening last fall when he learned why some people were not responding to his emails.
He is writing a book for W.W. Norton about the writer and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who died in 2011. But Carol Blue-Hitchens, the authorâs widow, and Steve Wasserman, his literary agent, were not planning to participate in Phillipsâs project, the podcast explained, and they encouraged family, friends and co