Christopher Eric Hitchens was an English-American author and journalist who is widely regarded as one of the most influential atheists of the 20th and 21st centuries.[28][29] Author of 18 books on faith, culture, politics, and literature, he was born and educated in Britain, graduating in the 1970s from Oxford. In the early 1980s, he immigrated to the United States and wrote for The Nation and Vanity Fair. Known as one of the four horsemen of New Atheism, he gained prominence as a columnist and speaker. His epistemological razor is still of mark in philosophy and law.