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Most notable amongst the New Journalism movement is Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson became internationally famous for his publication of Hell’s Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (1967), for which he spent a year living with the Angels to experience their lives and stories first hand. But his most popular work…
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Alongside Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson is Norman Mailer, an innovator of creative non-fiction and an influence on the New Journalism of the 1960’s. Mailer was part of a literary generation that included Gore Vidal and which sought to advance “The Great American Novel.” He became known for his counter-cultural essays in the 1950’s,…
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