The first ever issue of the Paris Review (Spring 1953), which included Southern’s short story “The Accident.”
Outside Gaudí’s Sagrada Família Church in Barcelona in 1954. (Photo by Pud Gadiot.)
Terry and Carol Southern in Paris in 1956.
A page from the original draft of Flash and Filigree written between 1952 and 1957.
Working on The Magic Christian galleys in Geneva in 1958.
Gore Vidal’s rave write-up of The Magic Christian (1959), written on the back of a starched shirt backing. Vidal writes, “Terry Southern is the most profoundly witty writer of our generation . . .”
The telegram that changed everything. This communiqué from Stanley Kubrick invited Southern to come to London to work on Kubrick’s new screenplay for the movie Dr. Strangelove (1964). Southern was instrumental in transforming the film from a political thriller into a satire.
Southern and his son, Nile, in Central Park in 1967. (Photo by Michael Cooper.)
From left to right: William S. Burroughs, Terry Southern, Allen Ginsberg, and Jean Genet, covering the National Democratic Convention for Esquire in Chicago, 1968. (Photo by Michael Cooper.)
Southern with his dog, Hunter, in Canaan, Connecticut, in the 1980s. (Photo by Nile Southern.)
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