Writer Hunter S. Thompson Kills Himself

Monday February 21, 2005

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) -- Hunter S. Thompson, the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America's underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas," has committed suicide.

Thompson was found dead Sunday in his Aspen-area home of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, sheriff's officials said. He was 67. Thompson's wife, Anita, had gone out before the shooting and was not home at the time. His son, Juan, found the body.

I'm not going to claim I've read his books, but I definitely know about this man and his influence on literature. It's sad that something like this has to happen for me to suddenly feel the urge to read more of his writings.

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