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JOE ESZTERHAS is a former writer for Rolling Stone and the author of several screenplays.
JEANETTE ETHERIDGE is the owner of Tosca, a bar in San Francisco.
WAYNE EWING produced and directed three documentary films about Hunter.
BEN FEE began working as an assistant to Hunter at Owl Farm in January 2004.
DAVID FELTON was a Rolling Stone editor in the seventies.
TIM FERRIS was the New York bureau chief of Rolling Stone and is the author of numerous books on astronomy.
DEBORAH FULLER was Hunter’s assistant from 1982 to 2003, living in the cabin adjacent to Hunter’s house at Owl Farm.
DR. BOB GEIGER, an orthopedic surgeon and novelist in Sonoma, California, met Hunter in 1964.
JACK GERMOND was a national political reporter covering the 1972 presidential campaign for the Gannett papers.
TERRY GILLIAM directed Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, as well as other films, including Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, and The Fisher King.
MITCH GLAZER is a screenwriter and producer in Los Angeles.
GERRY GOLDSTEIN is a board member of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws and a past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
MIRIAM GOOD and her husband, Lloyd, own Sugarloaf Lodge on Sugarloaf Key, Florida.
RICHARD GOODWIN is a former speechwriter and adviser to John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson, and a former contributing editor of Rolling Stone.
WILLIAM GREIDER, a former Washington Post assistant managing editor, replaced Hunter as national affairs editor of Rolling Stone in 1982.
GAYLORD GUENIN is an Aspen writer and editor.
STACEY HADASH was a member of the Clinton campaign “War Room” staff during the 1992 presidential campaign.
HAL HADDON, formerly a campaign manager for Gary Hart, is a criminal-defense attorney in Denver.
DAVID HALBERSTAM was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and the author of numerous books, including The Best and the Brightest.
MARY HARRIS and her husband, Shep, own the Woody Creek Tavern.
JOHN D. (JERRY) HAWKE served in the air force with Hunter and was his roommate in New York while attending Columbia University.
ROGER HAWKE roomed with his brother Jerry and Hunter while attending law school at Columbia.
WARREN HINCKLE was the editor of Ramparts and Scanlan’s magazines in San Francisco.
ANJELICA HUSTON, the actress, visited Aspen regularly in the seventies and eighties.
LOU ANN ILER was a childhood sweetheart of Hunter’s.
LOREN JENKINS moved to Aspen in the sixties and was the Saigon bureau chief for Newsweek during the Vietnam War.
DON JOHNSON, the actor (Miami Vice, Nash Bridges), was Hunter’s neighbor in Woody Creek.
JEFF KASS is a reporter for the Rocky Mountain News.
WILLIAM KENNEDY was the managing editor of Puerto Rico’s San Juan Star in 1959. Kennedy has published many novels, including Ironweed, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
MARGOT KIDDER, the actress, met Hunter in the mid-seventies in Key West.
SARAH LAZIN joined Rolling Stone in 1971 as an editorial assistant.
SEMMES LUCKETT was a law school dropout working at a restaurant in Aspen in the seventies.
NORMAN MAILER has twice won the Pulitzer Prize—for Armies of the Night and The Executioner’s Song.
FRANK MANKIEWICZ was George McGovern’s campaign manager.
MARILYN MANSON is a musical artist.
DAVID MCCUMBER was Hunter’s editor at the San Francisco Examiner in the mid-eighties.
TERRY MCDONELL is a former managing editor of Rolling Stone.
GENE MCGARR was a copyboy at Time magazine in New York in 1958, and Hunter’s roommate.
GEORGE MCGOVERN, a former U.S. senator, was the Democratic candidate for president in 1972.
SARAH MURRAY began working as an assistant to Hunter in November 2004.
LAILA NABULSI met Hunter in 1977 while she was working at Saturday Night Live and later produced the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
LYNN NESBIT was Hunter’s literary agent for more than thirty years.
JACK NICHOLSON, the actor, has a home in Aspen.
PAUL OAKENFOLD is a British DJ and producer.
ANN OWLSLEY was a Woody Creek neighbor of Hunter’s.
PAUL PASCARELLA, an artist, moved to Aspen in 1968. He helped create the “gonzo fist” logo.
SEAN PENN, the actor, was in talks with Hunter regarding a film of The Rum Diary.
CHARLES PERRY was Rolling Stone’s first copy chief. He is the author of The Haight-Ashbury: A History.
TOBIAS PERSE was an editorial assistant at Rolling Stone in 1994.
PETE PETERS was a friend of Hunter’s younger brother Jim.
Roxanne Pulitzer met Hunter while he was covering her 1983 divorce trial in Palm Beach.
SALLY QUINN, formerly a reporter for the Washington Post, is an author and hostess in Washington, D.C.
CLIFFORD RIDLEY was Hunter’s editor at the National Observer from 1962 to 1965.
ALAN RINZLER is a book editor who worked with Hunter on several projects.
CURTIS ROBINSON is a former editor of the Aspen Daily News.
CATHERINE SABONIS-BRADLEY began working as an assistant to Hunter in 1990.
TERRY SABONIS-CHAFEE was working at an Aspen-area energy think tank when she met Hunter in 1989.
SHELBY SADLER began working for Hunter as an editor and researcher in 1986.
PAUL SCANLON is a former managing editor of Rolling Stone.
PAUL SEMONIN was a childhood friend of Hunter’s in Louisville.
COREY SEYMOUR was an editorial assistant at Rolling Stone in 1992.
JAMES SILBERMAN assigned Hunter his first book, Hell’s Angels, when Silberman was editor in chief of Random House.
MICHAEL SOLHEIM managed the Jerome Bar in Aspen in the seventies.
BILL STANKEY was Hunter’s lecture agent for thirteen years, starting in 1983.
ANNA STEADMAN is the wife of Ralph Steadman.
RALPH STEADMAN, the illustrator, began a long collaboration with Hunter in 1970 while on assignment to cover the Kentucky Derby.
LOU STEIN is a theater director who staged Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas at the Gate Theatre in London in 1982.
MICHAEL STEPANIAN is on the board of the National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws and is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
GEORGE STRANAHAN is a founder of the Aspen Center for Physics, the former owner of the Woody Creek Tavern, and the former landlord of Owl Farm.
PATTI STRANAHAN is the wife of George Stranahan.
JACK THIBEAU, an actor and writer, met Hunter in San Francisco in 1964.
JUAN THOMPSON, Hunter and Sandy’s son, was born in 1964.
SANDY THOMPSON (now Sondi Wright) married Hunter in 1963. They divorced in 1980.
GEORGE TOBIA was Hunter’s literary lawyer and is now an executor of his estate.
SARI TUSCHMAN began working as an assistant to Hunter in June 2004.
GERALD TYRRELL was an early childhood friend of Hunter’s in Louisville.
KALLEN VON RENKL was a cocktail waitress at the Jerome Bar in Aspen.
JOHN WALSH, a former managing editor of Rolling Stone, is now a senior vice president and executive editor of ESPN, Inc.
TEX WEAVER was a Woody Creek neighbor of Hunter’s.
JANE WENNER is the wife of Jann Wenner and a vice president of Wenner Media.
JANN WENNER is the founder, editor, and publisher of Rolling Stone.
JOHN WILBUR is a former guard for the Washington Redskins.
TOM WOLFE is the author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Bonfire of the Vanities, among many other titles.
BARNEY WYCOFF is an Aspen gallery owner.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Fifteen years ago, Jann charged me with being Hunter’s aide-de-camp in New York. Two and
a half years ago, he directed me to compile Hunter’s life story. I’m grateful to him for the opportunity, direction, leadership, advice, wisdom, and the many good times along the way.
Paul Scanlon, a Rolling Stone veteran who helped edit and shape this book into its present form from an unwieldy manuscript more than three times this size, provided genius edits and institutional knowledge, esprit de corps, and a necessary dose of sanity. The trustees of Hunter’s estate—Hal Haddon, George Tobia, and especially Doug Brinkley—were invaluable allies, and my heartfelt thanks goes out to Hunter’s family and closest friends, both current and former. It was one of the privileges of my life to meet each and every one of them to talk about my old hero. Some couldn’t wait to pass on the rich tales they’d been storing up for decades; others enjoyed my interviews with them as much as oral surgery without Novocain—or laughing gas. I’m grateful to both camps, and especially to Tobias Perse for the comradeship on the Hunter beat at Rolling Stone. A number of people close to Hunter—Ed Bradley, Tom Benton, John Clancy, David Halberstam, and Gene McGarr—have also died since work on this book began. So did one person very close to me—my mother, Betty Seymour, to whose memory my work on this book is dedicated.
Corey Seymour
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jann S. Wenner is the founder, editor, and publisher of Rolling Stone. He was Hunter Thompson’s editor for thirty-five years.
Corey Seymour is a writer and editor who worked with Hunter Thompson at Rolling Stone in the 1990s.