Hunter S. Thompson (1937 - 2005)

Hunter S. Thompson was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1937. After high school, he served in the U.S. Air Force where he wrote about sports for the base newspaper. After being discharged, he continued as a journalist for a number of small-town newspapers.

On assignment at the Kentucky Derby, Thompson inadvertantly invented what became known as Gonzo Journalism, characterized by the insertion of the journalist into the story and a sense of narrative structure like that typically found in fiction...More