Who wrote the novel 'Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas'?

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Hunter S. Thompson wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), a hallmark of “Gonzo journalism” in which the reporter becomes a chaotic participant. Subtitled “A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream,” it blends drug-fueled road-trip narrative with sharp cultural critique, originally appearing in Rolling Stone and famously illustrated by Ralph Steadman.

To remember: Hunter “hunts” the American Dream in Vegas. The other authors are tied to different classics—William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch), Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer), and F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby)—which helps eliminate them. Thompson’s distinctive, first-person, hyperbolic style and countercultural voice made the book a defining text of late-20th-century American literature and journalism.