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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]
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.
Gonzo: Photographs by Hunter S. Thompson. AMMO Books, 2006, ISBN 0-9786076-0-0 (Perfect; Paper over boards) Happy Birthday, Jack Nicholson. Penguin Books, 2005, Ltd ISBN 0-14-102243-4 (Trade Cloth) Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writings of Hunter S. Thompson. Simon & Schuster, 2011, ISBN 9781439165959 (Trade Cloth)
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 ...
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 ...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream is a 1971 novel in the gonzo journalism style by Hunter S. Thompson.The book is a roman à clef, rooted in autobiographical incidents.
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.
Amidst a backdrop of Nixon-era America, marked by riots, protests, and the war in Vietnam, young journalist Hunter S. Thompson visits the 1968 Democratic National Convention and experiences firsthand the brutality of the Chicago Police Department against protestors, "radicalizing" his political outlook against authoritative uses of force.