Author Christopher Hitchens
discusses his book "God Is Not Great:
How Religion Poisons Everything" as a part of the Authors@Google
series. The author of Why Orwell Matters and Letters to a Young
Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor,
a Slate columnist, and a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly.
He has also written for The Nation, Granta, Harper's, The Washington
Post, and is a frequent television and radio guest. Born in England,
Hitchens was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a
degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. He now lives in
Washington, D.C., and he became a U.S. citizen in 2007. This event took
place on August 16, 2007 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. 
