"You have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. "Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist," Thompson said in 2003. Much of his earliest work appeared in Rolling Stone magazine. Thompson is credited with helping to pioneer New Journalism - or, as he dubbed it, "gonzo journalism" - in which the writer made himself an essential component of the story. The central character in those wild, sprawling satires was Dr Thompson, a snarling, drug- and alcohol-crazed observer and participant. Thompson's wife, Anita, was not home at the time.īesides the 1972 drug-hazed classic about Thompson's visit to Las Vegas, he also wrote Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72. "Hunter prized his privacy and we ask that his friends and admirers respect that privacy as well as that of his family," Juan Thompson said in a statement released to the Aspen Daily News.
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