In the winter of 1948, Jack Kerouac went on his famous cross-country road trip with Neal Cassady. They…
Hunter S. Thompson was born in 1937 in Louisville, Kentucky. His father died when he was…
Jean-Louis “Jack” Kerouac was a novelist and poet who became the face of the Beat Generation. Born…
Edgar Allan Poe was master of the macabre. His gothic stories dealt with death, decomposition…
William Burroughs is known for three things. He was a junkie, he wrote Naked Lunch and…
In 1954, Ernest Hemingway took his fourth wife Mary Welsh to Africa. He chartered a sightseeing plane to…
Virginia Woolf was born into a life of privilege and high-society. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen…
In 1970, Hunter S. Thompson declared himself a candidate for Sheriff of Pitkin County…
When William Peter Blatty was a high school student at Brooklyn Prep, one of his Jesuit teachers…
