Hunter S Thompson

Hunter S. Thompson, the maverick journalist and author whose savage chronicling of the underbelly of American life and politics embodied a new kind of nonfiction writing he called "gonzo journalism," died yesterday in Colorado. Bob Braudis, the Pitkin County sheriff, said Mr. Thompson died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his fortified compound in Woody Creek, Colo. He was 67.

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