The American journalist Hunter Stockton Thompson (born 1937) was known as one of the best examples of "Gonzo" journalism. His political and cultural criticism of the United States in the 1970s was largely a series of tales flowing from his eccentric...

Hunter S. Thompson created an explosive, first-person, gonzo style of reportage that brashly pushed the language and limits of American literary journalism into boldly original new directions. With weird humor and strident apocalyptic invective, his...

Hunter S. Thompson ranks among the first and foremost practitioners of New Journalism, a genre that evolved in the 1960s to reflect the particular mood of those times. Thompson, who has called his brand of reporting "Gonzo Journalism," was perhaps the...

Hunter S. Thompson represents life on the edge, the counter to culture, the man who has listed his religion as none, his politics as anarchist, and his hobby as collecting guns. He claimed membership in the American Civil Liberties Union, the National...

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author, famous for his novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting where reporters involve...

San Francisco He said he wanted his ashes shot out of a cannon. "A great funeral" was what he wanted, he told his son. Then he walked into the kitchen and shot himself dead in the head. That was the end of...

University Wire 02-22-2005 (Daily Texan) (U-WIRE) AUSTIN, Texas -- Journalist and novelist Hunter S. Thompson was found dead on Sunday night in his Aspen, Colo., home of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 67 years old. Although Thompson is most widely regarded for...

The hometown newspaper of the late Hunter S. Thompson published a tribute edition Saturday, three days after what would have been his 70th birthday, celebrating the champion of "gonzo journalism."Contributors to the "Gonzo Edition" of the Aspen Daily News included Ralph Steadman, a longtime friend;...

Bart Darling, his hair cropped close to his skull and his motorcycle club's colors on his back, explained the prerequisites for Hells Angels membership: Respect is earned, not given. Bad boys are welcomed, not rejected. And one last thing:"We don't beat up freaking women."The neighborhood...

In the following review, Copetas discusses Thompson's Songs of the Doomed and offers personal reminiscences of socializing with "Doc" Thompson.

By conceiving his journalism as a form of fiction, Thompson has been able to shape actual events into meaningful works of literary art. (p. 16) New journalists, such as Thompson, and fabulators, such as [Kurt] Vonnegut, make opposing epistemological contracts with the reader for similar ends. While the one promises fact and the other fantasy, both seek a greater freedom for their fictive imaginations. Because they both assume that artifice is an essential element in all knowledge and communication, they eve...

In the following essay, McCumber discusses the impact of Thompson's work and his current projects.

A description of a quintissential American.