McKeen William - Outlaw journalist: the life and times of Hunter S. Thompson

There are so many people to thank that it seems most efficient to simply list them below. Two people get top billing: my editor, Amy Cherry; and my agent, Jane Dystel. Without them, nothing.

For conversation, correspondence, and commentary: David Amram, Rick Balentine, Ralph Sonny Barger, Ed Bastian, Steve Bennett, Carl Bernstein, Porter Bibb, Neville Blakemore, Roscoe Born, Geoff Boucher, Bob Braudis, Douglas Brinkley, DeDe Brinkman, Nickole Brown, Jon Burstein, Russell Chatham, Montgomery Chitty, Michael Cleverly, Sebastian Corcoran, Tom Corcoran, Jay Cowan, Bill Dixon, Barbara Dorsey, Wayne Ewing, Ben Fong-Torres, Jerry Footlick, Charles Fort, Cheryl Frymire, Deborah Fuller, Bill Giles, Chris Goldstein, Gerry Goldstein, Joe Gonzalez, Daniel Greene, William Greider, Margaret Harrell, Gary Hart, Troy Hooper, James Irsay, Walter Isaacson, Loren Jenkins, Walter Kaegi, Debby Kasdan, Maria Khan, John Lombardi, Michael Lydon, Don Mallard, Frank Mankiewicz, B. J. Martin, David McCumber, Laila Nabulsi, Anne Willis Noonan, Paul Pascarella, Charles Perry, Geoffrey Proud, Bob Rafelson, Chris Robinson, Catherine Sabonis-Bradley, Terry Sabonis-Heff, Paul Scanlan, Fred Schoelkopf, Paul Semonin, Bernard Shir-Cliff, Michael Solheim, Ralph Steadman, Judy Stellings, Don Stuber, Anita Thompson, Hunter S. Thompson (interviews in 1978 and 1990), Juan Thompson, Sandy Thompson, Dick Tuck, Gerald Tyrrell, Darlene van der Hoop, John A. Walsh, Jann Wenner, Bill White, Ron Whitehead, Curtis Wilkie, Tom Wolfe, Pat Yack.

For their work: E. Jean Carroll, Hunter (Dutton, 1993); Michael Cleverly and Bob Braudis, The Kitchen Readings (HarperCollins, 2008); Wayne Ewing, Breakfast with Hunter (film, 2004) and When I Die (film, 2005); Nigel Finch, Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood (film, 1978); Christine O. (www.gonzo.org); Paul Perry, Fear and Loathing (Thunders Mouth, 1993), Jann Wenner and Corey Seymour, Gonzo (Little, Brown, 2007); Ralph Steadman, The Jokes Over (Harcourt, 2006); Craig Vetter, The Playboy Interview with Hunter S. Thompson (November 1974); Peter Whitmer, When the Going Gets Weird (Hyperion, 1993). I especially thank Douglas Brinkley, for his generosity and his editing and annotation of Hunter Thompsons correspondence. The bibliography contains a list of sources.

General advice and counsel: Harry Allen, Anna Churchill, Mike Foley, Ted Spiker.

Transcriptions and research: Andrew Bare, Marcela Bayard, Mark Berman, Tom Beshear, Ebony Bosch, Pamela Cook, Kelly Cuculianksy, Angie De Angelis, Stephanie Farr, Jesse Feldman, Suzette Jennings Foley, Lucia Howe, James Madieros, Ana Maria Malpartida, Collin McLeod, Brian Offenther, Patrick Reakes, Jason Sanchez, Billy Shields, Mara Sloan, Stephen Specht, Daniel Sutphin.

At W. W. Norton: Eleen Cheung, Nancy Palmquist, Otto Sonntag, Erica Stern.

For favors, mostly legal: Steve Belgard, Myra Borshoff, Danilo Cisneros, Kathryn Dennis, Isha Elkins, Megan Gales, Melissa Garcia, Christy Hamm, Amanda Maxey, Kasey Roberts, Leisa Sergeant, Victoria Solodare, Edward Toppino, Beef Torrey, Helga Williams, Mike Wilson.

Tribal council: Andrea Billups, John Marvel, Stephen F. Orlando, Jon Roosenraad.

Inspirations: Charles and Martha McKeen.

Reasons for living: Sarah, Graham, Mary, Savannah, Jack, Travis, and Charley.

Saintliness: Nicole Cisneros McKeen.

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I. BOOKS BY HUNTER S. THOMPSON

Hells Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga. New York: Random House, 1967.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream. New York: Random House, 1972.

Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973.

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time. New York: Summit Books, 1979.

The Curse of Lono. New York: Bantam Books, 1983.

Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the 80s. New York: Summit Books, 1988.

Songs of the Doomed: More Notes on the Death of the American Dream. New York: Summit Books, 1990.

Screwjack. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Neville, 1991.*

Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie. New York: Random House, 1994.

[*] denotes limited edition

The Proud Highway: The Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 19551967. New York: Villard Books, 1997.

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories. New York: Modern Library, 1997.

Mistah Leary, He Dead. Pasadena, Calif.: X-Ray Publishing, 1997.*

The Rum Diary: The Long Lost Novel. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.

Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 19681976. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.

Screwjack and Other Stories. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.

Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.

Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness: Modern History from the Sports Desk. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004.

Fire in the Nuts. Tucson, Ariz.: Sylph Publications, 2004.*

II. BOOKS

Acosta, Oscar Zeta. The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972.

Amram, David. Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers, 2007.

Anson, Robert Sam. Gone Crazy and Back Again. New York: Doubleday, 1981.

Baez, Joan. And a Voice to Sing With. New York: Summit Books, 1987.

Barger, Ralph Sonny, with Keith and Kent Zimmerman. Hells Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

Bernstein, Carl, and Bob Woodward. All the Presidents Men. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973.

Brinkley, Douglas. The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1993.

Carroll, E. Jean. Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson. New York: Dutton, 1993.

Chance, Jean, and William McKeen, eds. Literary Journalism: A Reader. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 2000. Includes Chitty and the Boohoo, adapted from Thompsons 1972 campaign coverage.

Cleverly, Michael, and Bob Braudis. The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

Clifford, Peggy. To Aspen and Back: An American Journey. New York: St. Martins Press, 1980. Foreword by Thompson.

Conrad, Harold. Dear Muffo: 35 Years in the Fast Lane. New York: Stein and Day, 1982.

Corcoran, Tom. The Mango Opera. New York: St. Martins Press, 1998.

. Bone Island Mambo. New York: St. Martins Press, 2001.

Crist, Steve, and Laila Nabulsi, eds. Gonzo. Los Angeles: Ammo Books, 2006. Features writing and photography by Thompson.

Crouse, Timothy. The Boys on the Bus. New York: Random House, 1973.

Dickstein, Morris. Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties. New York: Basic Books, 1977.

Draper, Robert. Rolling Stone: The Uncensored History. New York: Doubleday, 1990.

Early, Gerald, ed. The Muhammad Ali Reader. Hopewell, N.J.: Ecco Press, 1998. Includes Thompsons Ali profile.