Hitchens, who died last year at age 62 after an 18-month battle with cancer, lived as richly as he wrote. The ceremony included readings by actor Sean Penn, actress Olivia Wilde, scientist Lawrence Krauss and authors Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan.
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