Good morning, Mr Phelps.

Atheist, Author, Journalist and Literary Critic                          

Selected Works:

ARGUABLY: Selected Essay - 2011

Hitch-22: Some Confessions and Contradictions: A Memoir - 2010

Is Christianity Good for the World? – A Debate - co-author, with Douglas Wilson - 2008

Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq and the Left - with Simon Cottee and Thomas Cushman - 2008 

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. Published in the UK as God Is Not Great: The Case Against Religion - 2007

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer - 2007

Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography. Books That Shook the World - 2006

Thomas Jefferson: Author of America - 2005

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays - 2004

A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq - 2003

Why Orwell Matters, Basic Books (US)/UK edition as Orwell's Victory - 2002

The Trial of Henry Kissinger - 2001

Letters to a Young Contrarian - 2001

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere - 2000

No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton. Reissued as No One Left to Lie To: The Values of the Worst Family in 2000.

The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice  - 1995 

For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports - 1993

Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies - 1990, Reissued 2004 as Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

The Monarchy: A Critique of Britain's Favorite Fetish - 1990

Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports - 1988

Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question - contributor; co-editor with Edward Said - 1988

Imperial Spoils: The Curious Case of the Elgin Marbles - 1987 Chatto and Windus - Verso edition as The Elgin Marbles: Should They Be Returned to Greece?,  with essays by Robert Browning and Graham Binns

Cyprus - 1984. Revised editions as Hostage to History: Cyprus from the Ottomans to Kissinger, 1989.                          

Mother Yvonne
Father Eric, two sons, Christopher and Peter.
First wife Eleni Meleagrou, two children, Alexander and Sophia
Second wife Carol Blue, one daughter, Antonia.                          

Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society

Nominated for a National Book Award for God Is Not Great  - 2007
Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction - 1999

Named as one of the "Top 100 Public Intellectuals" by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines

Serves on the advisory board of the Secular Coalition for America