Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (born 1937)

Hunter S. Thompson

American journalist and author (1937–2005)

Hunter Stockton Thompson 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…