Thompson, Hunter S.
Thompson, Hunter S. , Hunter Stockton Thompson ( 1939 – 2005 ),American journalist and writer, born in Louisville, Kentucky. He spent many years writing for Rolling Stone magazine, in which the two works for which he is best known first appeared. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ( 1972 ), subtitled ‘a savage journey to the heart of the American Dream’, is an account of a heavily drugged visit to Las Vegas, offering a brutal, funny, and often horrifying dissection of American culture. No less provocative was Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 ( 1973 ), his coverage for Rolling Stone of the 1972 American presidential campaign. He spent a year riding with the Hell's Angels, ran for sheriff of Aspen, Colorado, in 1970 , and subsequently awarded himself a doctorate. With Tom Wolfe and Joan Didion a pioneer of New Journalism, his own irreverent political and cultural writing...
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