The illustrator:
Ralph Steadman is best known for his collaborations with Hunter S.
Thompson. He is also a printmaker (his prints include a series of
etchings on writers from William Shakespeare to William Burroughs).
His own books include the lives of Sigmund Freud and Leonardo da
Vinci and The Big I Am, the story of God.
The author:
Legendary author Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) developed a style
of writing about American life and politics that was so acerbic and
over-the-top, it earned its own nickname: "gonzo journalism." His
magazine articles and books--of which he penned nearly a dozen,
including Hell's Angels, The Rum Diary, Songs for the Doomed, The
Great Shark Hunt, and the monumentalFear and Loathing in Las
Vegas--influenced a generation of writers and established his voice
as an essential part of America's socio-political fabric. Portrayed
on the silver screen by Bill Murray (Where the Buffalo Roam, 1980)
and Johnny Depp (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1998), Thompson
was a wild character whose persona was inseparable from his often
semi-autobiographical writing. True to his image, he once said, ""I
hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone,
but they've always worked for me.""
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