American journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Hunter S. Thompson

(1937 - 2005)

After being discharged from the U.S. Air Force in 1957, Hunter S. Thompson wrote for various publications, among them the bowling magazine El Sportivo and The National Observer. He published Hell’s Angels in 1967 and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in 1972, the latter making his gonzo journalism famous. He died in 2005 at the age of sixty-seven from a self-inflicted bullet wound.

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