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Hunter S. Thompson

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Hunter S. Thompson

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American journalist and author (1937–2005)

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Hunter S. Thompson was a male author from the United States who began his work period in 1967 and ended it on 2005-02-20, the same day he died. Born on 18 July 1937, he used the pseudonym Raoul Duke and had one child. His works are associated with genres including spoken word, gonzo, literature, experimental, and speech, with some releases categorized as German audiobooks.

Thompson is the subject of 781 other encyclopedia articles. His bibliography includes titles such as *Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas* (Harper Perennial Modern Classc), *Paḥad ṿe-tiʻuv be-Las Ṿegas*, *Curse of Lono*, *Dialog Beruf*, and *Antigua sabiduría gonzo*. Records indicate he has 112 works in one database and five in another, with a total playcount of 111584 and 10613 listeners on Last.fm.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
18 July 1937
Died
20 February 2005
Works
112

Top works

  • Paḥad ṿe-tiʻuv be-Las Ṿegas
  • Curse of Lono
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classc)
  • Dialog Beruf
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream / Generation of Swine : Gonzo Papers Vol.2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1937-07-18
Active to
2005-02-20
has german audiobooks
DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
10,613
Total plays
111,584

Tags

spoken wordgonzoliteratureexperimentalspeech

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) – was an American journalist and author. As a writer he is remembered most for his flamboyant and humorous style. He enjoyed employing action verbs to comically spin outlandish tales that were completely unbelievable, yet provided a unique viewpoint to accurately describe the underlying reality at hand. Thompson almost always wrote in first person narrative, and his stories became so colorfully contrived that they easily slipped into t

via Last.fm · Hunter S. Thompson

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses

    · 2003 · cited 52,676x

  2. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

    · 1994 · cited 52,099x

  3. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment

    · 2007 · cited 35,581x

  4. Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis

    · 2002 · cited 32,056x

  5. The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools

    · 1997 · cited 31,745x

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Quotes

  • “Who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived, or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
  • “The hard core, the outlaw elite, were the Hell's Angels... wearing the winged death's-head on the back of their sleeveless jackets and packing their "mamas" behind them on big "chopped hogs." They rode with a fine unwashed arrogance, secure in their reputation as the rottenest motorcycle gang in the whole history of Christendom.”
  • “Satan's Slaves, number three in the outlaw hierarchy, custom-bike specialists with a taste for the flesh of young dogs, flashy headbands and tender young blondes with lobotomy eyes.”
  • “Tiny hurts people. When he loses his temper he goes completely out of control and his huge body becomes a lethal weapon. It is difficult to see what role he might play in the Great Society.”
  • “The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.”
  • “Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.”

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~40 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, regarded as a pioneer of New Journalism along with Gay Talese, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. He rose to prominence with the book Hell's Angels (1967), for which he lived a year among the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of their lives and experiences. In 1970, he wrote an unconventional article titled "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" for Scanlan's Monthly, which further raised his profile as a countercultural figure. It also set him on the path to establish the subgenre of New Journalism that he called "Gonzo", a style in which the writer becomes central to, and participant in the narrative.

Thompson is widely known for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972), a book first serialized in Rolling Stone in which he grapples with the implications of what he considered the failure of the 1960s counterculture. It was adapted for film twice, loosely in 1980 in Where the Buffalo Roam and explicitly in 1998 in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hunter S. Thompson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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