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Richard Brautigan Quotes
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Richard Gary Brautigan (Jan 30, 1935 - Sept 1984) was an American novelist and poet . Sourced Forsaken, fucking in the cold, eating each other, lost runny noses, complaining all the time like so many people that we know "Donner Party" Thinking hard...


Biography

Name: Richard (Gary) Brautigan
Variant Name: Richard (Gary) Brautigan, Richard Brautigan
Birth Date: January 30, 1935
Death Date: September, 1984
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Richard (Gary) Brautigan
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Richard Brautigan, a San Francisco-based poet and a popular experimental novelist in the 1960s, left an uncertain critical legacy when he died, apparently by his own hand, at the age of forty-nine. Commentators have variously attempted to categorize...
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Biography of Richard (Gary) Brautigan
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Richard Gary Brautigan was born in Tacoma, Washington, on 30 January 1935, the oldest child of Bernard F. Brautigan and Lula Mary Keho Brautigan; his father was a "common laborer," his mother a housewife. On 8 June, 1957, he married Virginia Dionne...
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Biography of Richard (Gary) Brautigan
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Richard Brautigan was born in Tacoma, Washington, the son of Bernard F. and Lula Mary Keho Brautigan. He married Virginia Dionne Adler, from whom he is now divorced, on 8 June 1957, and he has a daughter, Ianthe. He moved to San Francisco in 1958 and...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Brautigan, Richard (1935-1984) Summary
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Author of the widely popular novel Trout Fishing in America, Richard Brautigan was a countercultural hero in the United States in the 1960s. Although he never aligned himself with any group, Brautigan, with his long hair, broad-brimmed hat, wire-rim...
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Richard Brautigan Information
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Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – September 14 (?),[1] 1984) was an American writer, best known for the novel Trout Fishing in America. The poet Michael McClure said of Brautigan's work, "There's nothing resembling it in American writing....


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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Remembering the troubled man behind Richard Brautigan craze
09/13/2000: 548 words, approx. 2 pages
Remembering the troubled man behind Richard Brautigan craze By MICHAEL HARRINGTON Knight Ridder Newspapers Wednesday, September 13, 2000 An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey. By Richard Brautigan. St. Martin's Press. 110 pages. $17.95. You Can't Catch Death: A Daughter's Memoir....
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Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
BRAUTIGAN ARRIVES AT LAND OF GIANTS.(Books)(Review)
09/19/1999: 624 words, approx. 2 pages
Byline: Peter Thorpe Richard Brautigan: The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings Edited by Keith Abbott. Mariner Books, 122 pages, $14. Often called ''the last of the Beat Generation,'' Richard Brautigan was born in 1935 and committed suicide in Bolinas,...
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AP Features
New guide to literary Monterey, Calif.
1/30/2007: 420 words, approx. 1 pages
A new tourism map of Monterey County can help you plan a literary pilgrimage to places associated with John Steinbeck, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jack Kerouac, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and many other writers.The "Scenes For Your Senses Literary & Film Map," produced by the Monterey County Convention...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Brooke Horvath
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In the following essay, Horvath describes the efforts of the countercultural heroes in Brautigan 's fiction as they attempt to resist the dominant culture of American society, associated in Brautigan's novels with "dealing and desiring death. "
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Critical Essay by Brooke Horvath
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In the following essay, Horvath examines the ways in which Brautigan's fiction deals with the illusion of cheating death.
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Critical Essay by Kathryn Hume
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In the following essay, Hume analyzes the aesthetics of Brautigan's narratives, noting that he consciously used Zen principles to evoke a special kind of reader response.
 


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