“Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered.”

American journalist and author of the 1970s and '80s, best known for his gonzo journalism and the novel *Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas*. His fearless, satirical style captured the excess and chaos of counterculture and political life, blending reportage with hallucinatory prose.