Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore by Newman Terry

Author:Newman, Terry [Newman, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-06-27T04:00:00+00:00

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Hunter S. Thompson at his ranch near Aspen, Colorado, mid-1970s.

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Hunter S. Thompson on the road, 1990.

As a freethinking radical, Thompson personified an outsider looking in on both counterculture and the mainstream. His sardonic and squinted view of the sixties and seventies has become synonymous with the eras. He covered Nixon’s election, the Watergate scandal, and the Vietnam War; he wrote about hippies and the demise of the beatnik generation. In 1966 he published his first book, Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga . Like his second book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , his piece began as a feature for The Nation magazine, and after it appeared, Thompson was offered a deal to write something longer. He spent the next year living with and observing the Hells Angels he had met, and wrote afterward in the work: “I was no longer sure whether I was doing research on the Hells Angels or being slowly absorbed by them.” He had spent time as a teenager typing up F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, in order to pick up the rhyme and reason of the greats, but while he was working on Hell’s Angels , Thompson’s unique style of writing kicked in. In his 2003 memoir, Kingdom of Fear , Thompson says he fit into a new lineage of author: “I wasn’t trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I didn’t have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.”

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