Hunter S. Thompson (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
It seems as if nothing known about Hunter Stockton Thompson is simple, authoritative, or goes without contention (even his birth date is occasionally contested as occurring between 1937 and 1939). Certain things are known for sure: He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, to Jack (an insurance salesman) and Virginia (a homemaker) as the oldest of three children; his father died of a heart attack before he was sixteen, and he found himself sentenced and incarcerated for sixty days for the robbery of a service-station attendant before he completed high school. Thompson...
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