biography
| name: |
Brautigan, Richard (Gary)
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pronunciation:
[brawtigan]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1933–84)
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| biography:
| Novelist and poet, born in Tacoma, Washington, USA. He performed public readings in San Francisco, becoming an inspiration to the ‘flower children’. His writing is highly imaginative and often surreal. His first novel was the humorous A Confederate General from Big Sur (1964). This was followed by the critically acclaimed Trout Fishing in America (1967) and the collected poems, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1968). A very private man, he travelled throughout the USA and spent his later years in Tokyo. After his suicide, an obituary in the Los Angeles Times described him as ‘the literary guru of the ’60s. |
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