Christopher Hitchens: a life in pictures

'Portrait of the author as a young man. The novel is called Soft Answers, and it proved to be second-rate' Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk 'Without any previous qualifications, I became a member of the Church of England. Malta, 1949' Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk 'On a picket line at a non-union factory' Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk 'Blockading a racist hairdresser, 1968. I am at the back, on the right-hand side. Arrest to follow' Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk 'In Cuba, at a work camp for young revolutionaries, 1968' Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk 'In Iraq, with an atheist banner, 1975' Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk "In Nicaragua with Vice-President Sergio Ramirez, a Sandinista and novelist" Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk 'With James Fenton and The Skip' Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk 'Reviewing the situation with Martin Amis in Cape Cod, 1975' Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk 'Passing on our genes: Martin Amis and I with Louis and Alexander, Cape Cod, 1985' Photograph: PR Photograph: guardian.co.uk 'With Kurds on a destroyed Iraqi tank' Photograph: Ed Kashi/ Ed Kashi/Corbis Photograph: Ed Kashi/guardian.co.uk 'With Pesh Merga in Iraq, 8 July 1991' Photograph: © Ed Kashi/Corbis/Corbis Photograph: © Ed Kashi/Corbis/guardian.co.uk