Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005)
Autor/a de Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Sobre l'autor
Hunter S. Thompson was born on July 18, 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky. At the age of sixteen he was inducted into the Athenaeum Literary Association and wrote for the Athenaeum Journal. During his two years in the US Air Force, Thompson wrote a sports column for The Common Courier. After he was mostra'n més discharged, he moved to New York to work as a copy boy at Time Magazine and later moved to San Juan to write for a Puerto Rican bowling magazine. He also reported to the National Observer from South America. Upon his return to the US, Thompson wrote Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, which became a national bestseller and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which was originally published in Rolling Stone magazine. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Esquire. Both Bill Murray and Johnny Depp portrayed Hunter in feature film movies based on his books, Where the Buffalo Roam and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, respectively. Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide on February 20, 2005 at his home in Colorado. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Hunter S. Thompson
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2003) 1,505 exemplars
Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness Modern History from the Sports Desk (2004) 572 exemplars
Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson (2011) 247 exemplars
Hunter S. Thompson: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2018) 20 exemplars
Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb 3 exemplars
The Hippies 2 exemplars
Raising Capital for Real Estate: How to Attract Investors, Establish Credibility, and Fund Deals (2019) 2 exemplars
Generation of Swine, Gonzo Papers Vol. 2 2 exemplars
Fear and Loathing in Miami Beach 2 exemplars
Fear and Loathing at the Watergate 2 exemplars
Hunter's Letter 1 exemplars
Królestwo lęku 1 exemplars
Las Vegas 1 exemplars
Fear and Loathing in Florida 1 exemplars
1977 11 01 [sound recording] 1 exemplars
The Harley-Davidson reader 1 exemplars
Fear And Loathing, Campaign 2004 1 exemplars
Hey Rube! I Love You: Rolling Stone, May 1999 1 exemplars
Thompson, Hunter S.: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, A Savage Return: Rolling Stone 1992 1 exemplars
The temptations of Jean-Claude Killy 1 exemplars
Strange Ramblings in Aztlan 1 exemplars
The murder of Ruben Salazar 1 exemplars
Freak Power in the Rockies 1 exemplars
Strah i požuda u New Yorku 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Col·laborador — 244 exemplars
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (2003) — Col·laborador — 217 exemplars
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (1997) — Col·laborador — 214 exemplars
The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats: The Beat Generation and American Culture (1999) — Col·laborador — 167 exemplars
Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (graphic novel) (2015) — Col·laborador — 76 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of Tales from the Road: Tales of Life on the Move (Mammoth Books) (2003) — Col·laborador — 50 exemplars
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson [2008 film] (2008) — Actor, algunes edicions — 17 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Thompson, Hunter S.
- Nom oficial
- Thompson, Hunter Stockton
- Data de naixement
- 1937-07-18
- Data de defunció
- 2005-02-20
- Lloc d'enterrament
- The sky!!!
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Woody Creek, Colorado, USA
- Causa de la mort
- Suicide
- Llocs de residència
- Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Woody Creek, Colorado, USA - Educació
- Columbia University
Florida State University - Professions
- journalist
author - Relacions
- Thompson, Anita (wife)
- Organitzacions
- United States Air Force
National Observer
Rolling Stone
National Rifle Association
NORML - Agent
- Nesbit, Lynn
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Favourite Books (1)
Overdue Podcast (1)
Find (1)
1970s (1)
Books I've Read (1)
Books (1)
1960s (1)
Read These Too (1)
Best Satire (2)
2005-2010 (2)
Unread books (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Best First Lines (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 70
- També de
- 20
- Membres
- 39,535
- Popularitat
- #448
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 441
- ISBN
- 414
- Llengües
- 21
- Preferit
- 346