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Interested in sports and athletically inclined from a young age, Thompson co-founded the Hawks Athletic Club while attending I.N. Bloom Elementary School, [11] which led to an invitation to join Louisville's Castlewood Athletic Club [11] for adolescents that prepared them for high-school sports.
Apr 3, 2014 · Counterculture icon Hunter S. Thompson was an American journalist best known for writing 1971's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' and creating "Gonzo Journalism."
Jul 14, 2024 · Hunter S. Thompson was an American journalist and author who created the genre known as gonzo journalism, a highly personal style of reporting that made Thompson a counterculture icon. He is best known for the contemporary classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971).
897 quotes from Hunter S. Thompson: 'Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow!
Jul 18, 2019 · From running for Sheriff of Pitkin County to being the inspiration behind ‘Uncle Duke,’ here are 5 things you didn’t know about Hunter S. Thompson.
Feb 21, 2005 · Hunter S. Thompson, the dean of gonzo journalism and a longtime contributor to Rolling Stone, died Sunday in his Colorado home of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 67.
Dec 12, 2019 · Hunter S. Thompson emerged from the late 1960s counter-culture as the first of a new breed of journalist who eschewed old rules of objectivity and formal writing. His writing style was intensely personal and made him into a literary hero for many who saw his muscular, sometimes purplish prose as exciting and imaginative.
Hunter S. Thompson was born on 18 July 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), The Rum Diary (2011) and Gonzo (2008). He was married to Anita Thompson and Sondi Wright. He died on 20 February 2005 in Aspen, Colorado, USA.
Known as one of the most important writers of the 20th century, Hunter helped pave the way for a new generation of journalists and readers. The Father of Gonzo Journalism, and apt observer of the American scene for four decades, his work continues on.
Feb 20, 2005 · Hunter Stockton Thompson (1937-2005) was an American journalist and author, famous for his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become the central figures of their stories.
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