In his new book discussing Hunter S. Thompson and his work titled Savage Journey: The Weird Road to Gonzo, author Peter Richardson examines the interplay between the writer, his persona and his work.

Later, at Scanlan’s magazine, Hinckle connected Steadman to Hunter S. Thompson, who had been writing journalism for more than a decade, including sports and a brilliant book on the motorcycle ...

The National Press Club hosted a special tribute to the late Hunter S. Thompson. Colleagues and friends of the counter-culture author and journalist who died earlier in the year discussed Thompson ...

Hard-living writer Hunter S. Thompson, author of the 1972 first-person “gonzo journalism” classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, was found dead Sunday in his Aspen-area home of an apparent ...

-Hunter S. Thompson. 1937-2005. Rox Populi covers some of the media and blog reactions. Take action to protect public media!

“Many years ago” was 2007, when Iconis broached the notion of a Hunter S. Thompson stage musical to Christopher Ashley, then the brand-new artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse.

Anita Thompson reads a passage from a book as she stands in the kitchen of her and her late husband, Hunter S. Thompson's home at the "Owl Farm" in Woody Creek, Colo., Monday, Aug. 15, 2005.

Joe Iconis spent years writing "The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical," before finally being invited to walk in the famed journalist's footsteps.

BOISE, Idaho -- A young Hunter S. Thompson went to Idaho to write about Ernest Hemingway and decided to take a piece of his hero home with him - a set of trophy elk antlers.