The British-born journalist and intellectual defender of atheism Christopher Hitchens, who made the United States at home and supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003, died Thursday at age 62.
Hitchens died in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of esophageal cancer he was suffering, Vanity Fair magazine reported.
A heavy drinker and smoker, Hitchens had to shorten a media tour of his memoir "Hitch 22" last year to undergo chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer.
