Jerry Hopkins (1935–2018)
Autor/a de No One Here Gets Out Alive
Sobre l'autor
Jerry Hopkins was born Elisha Gerald Hopkins in Camden, New Jersey on November 9, 1935. He received a bachelor's degree from Washington and Lee University and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. He wrote for The Twin-City Sentinel in Winston-Salem, The Village Voice in New mostra'n més York, and The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. In the early 1960s he was a writer-producer for PM East, a television talk show hosted by Mike Wallace, and a talent booker for the syndicated Steve Allen Show. In 1966, Hopkins and a partner opened Headquarters, a shop that sold drug paraphernalia in Los Angeles. He was also writing freelance articles for various publications when he responded to a 1967 ad in an early issue of Rolling Stone asking for submissions of music reviews. He became a music writer for Rolling Stone magazine and became the magazine's London correspondent in 1972. He wrote for Rolling Stone for about 20 years. He wrote several biographies of musicians including Elvis: A Biography, No One Here Gets Out Alive with Danny Sugerman, and Behind Closed Doors. He also wrote books and articles about exotic food, sex, travel, hula, and Hawaiian musical instruments. His memoir, The Ultimate Fish, was published in 2014 and focuses on his relationship with a transgender prostitute. He died of heart failure on June 3, 2018 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Jerry Hopkins
Strange Foods: Bush Meat, Bats, and Butterflies: An Epicurean Adventure Around the World (1999) 79 exemplars
Bangkok Babylon: The Real-Life Exploits of Bangkok's Legendary Expatriates are often Stranger than Fiction (2006) 48 exemplars
Romancing the East: A Literary Odyssey from the Heart of Darkness to the River Kwai (2013) 16 exemplars
Asian Aphrodisiacs: From Bangkok to Beijing - the Search for the Ultimate Turn-on (2007) 13 exemplars
Jerry Hopkins 1 exemplars
Nikdo to tu nepřežije [o Jimovi Morrisonovi] 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Angels Dance and Angels Die: The Tragic Romance of Pamela and Jim Morrison (1998) — Prefaci, algunes edicions — 56 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1935-11-09
- Data de defunció
- 2018-06-03
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Haddenfield, New Jersey, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Llocs de residència
- Thailand
Camden, New Jersey, USA - Professions
- author
journalist
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 38
- També de
- 2
- Membres
- 2,586
- Popularitat
- #9,934
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 28
- ISBN
- 135
- Llengües
- 12
- Preferit
- 1