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Thompson was born into a middle-class family in Louisville, Kentucky, the first of three sons of Virginia Davison Ray (1908, Springfield, Kentucky – March 20, 1998, Louisville), who worked as head librarian at the Louisville Free Public Library and Jack Robert Thompson (September 4, 1893, Horse Cave, Kentucky – July 3, 1952, Louisville), a public insurance adjuster and World War I veteran. [6]
Breakfast with Hunter is a 2003 documentary film about the everyday life of gonzo-journalist Hunter S. Thompson by Wayne Ewing. [2]The film includes a variety of well-known figures involved with Thompson throughout his life, including P. J. O'Rourke, Ralph Steadman, Roxanne Pulitzer, Johnny Depp, Terry Gilliam and Benicio del Toro.
Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness is a book written by Hunter S. Thompson, consisting of 83 articles split into three parts. The articles were first published on ESPN.com's Page 2 under Thompson's column Hey Rube. First published in mid-2004, the book contains articles from November 20, 2000, to ...
Don Johnson and gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson enjoyed a surprising friendship for nearly three decades until Thompson's death by suicide in 2005. "I loved him," the actor tells PEOPLE of the ...
Hunter S Thompson stands next to his Link Trainer with a pistol on Oct. 12, 1990, in Aspen, Colo. (Paul Harris / Getty Images) The musical, which spans Thompson's childhood in Kentucky to his ...
Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. He was known for his flamboyant writing style, most notably deployed in his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , which blurred the distinctions between writer and subject, fiction and nonfiction.
The Gonzo Papers is a four volume series of books by American journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson published between 1979 and 1994. The word Gonzo is often used to describe the unique style of journalism that Thompson cultivated throughout his life.
Friends and family (including Tom Wolfe and Ralph Steadman) provide interviews to help describe the mythos of Hunter and his life. The film premiered on January 20 in the Documentary Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival ; [ 1 ] it was released in US theaters on July 4, 2008, and released on DVD on November 18, 2008.