HAY-ON-WYE, UNITED KINGDOM – MAY 30: (FILE PHOTO) Author and journalist Christopher Hitchens poses for a portrait during The Hay Festival on May 30, 2010 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. The Annual Hay Festival of Literature & Arts is held in Hay-on-Wye from May 27-June 6. The author, journalist, outspoken critic and self-proclaimed atheist of dual British and US-citizenship died of pneumonia, aged 62, having been diagnosed with oesophagal cancer last year, on December 15, 2011 in Houston, Texas, United States. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)