Carol Blue: Who Is Christopher Hitchens’ Second Wife?

Carol Blue was Christopher Hitchens’ second wife whom he married in 1991.

Carol is an American screenwriter, known for the movie Charlie Rose (1991).

Corol and Christopher together had a daughter named Antonia Hitchens.

Carol and Christopher divorced in 2001.

Who Was Christopher Hitchens?

Christopher Hitchens was a British-American author, journalist and literary critic, born in Portsmouth in 1949.

Hitchens had written more than 30 books, with five essay collections, all centered around culture, politics, and literature.

He was regarded as a democratic socialist, and a Marxist, and belonged to several socialist organisations during his lifetime.

Hitchens was a strong critic of the American foreign policy, but backed the American government during military interventions such as the Kosovo War, the Afghanistan War, and the Iraq War.

He had his education at the Mount House School, Tavistock, Devon, and the Leys School in Cambridge.

He later attended Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

Hitchens was a part of the political left, and was passionate about the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons, racism and oligarchy,

He became motivated to begin a career in journalism after reading a piece by James Cameron.

He later moved to New York and became a contributing editor at Vanity Fair in 1992.

Hitchens died in Houston, Texas, United States, on December 15, 2011, after a battle with cancer. He was aged 62.