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Apr 26, 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).
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.
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Jul 19, 2017 · Hunter S. Thompson first gained fame with his investigation into the Hells Angels. The trip became less about covering the race and more of, in Thompson’s words, “a savage journey into the heart of the American dream.”
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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.
May 10, 2022 · Behind Thompson’s sui generis personality lurks a trenchant humorist with a sharp moral sensibility. His exaggerated style may defy easy categorization, but his career-long autopsy on the death of the American dream places him among the twentieth century’s most exciting writers.
Feb 22, 2005 · Hunter S. Thompson, the anger-driven, drug-fueled writer for Rolling Stone magazine whose obscenity-laced prose broke down the wall between reader and writer, writer and subject, shot and...
A Ferocious Satirist, With Ink as His Weapon. “For No Good Reason” strives to depict the life and work of the British cartoonist and illustrator Ralph Steadman, who spent much of his career ...
