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Monday, February 21, 2005

Hunter S. Thompson 

Hunter S. Thompson, author of “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” and regular contributor to ESPN.com’s Page 2 died yesterday afternoon from a self-inflicted gun shot wound. It hardly seems strange to read such a sentence about a novelist. Ernest Hemmingway, Sylvia Plath, and Virginia Woolf. All great writers, and all committed suicide. The suicide is like the punctuation that you expect to find at the end of their obituary, and sadly, in the long run it probably adds to the author's allure. Writing is a dangerous business.



Thompson's final column featured a terrific conversation with Bill Murray.
Posted by: billikenbluff / 2:24 PM
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