Let me be among the first to say it:
Hunter S Thompson was ASSASSINATED.
Also, whoever wrote the NYT obit deserves the same treatment:
Mr. Thompson, a magazine and newspaper writer who also wrote almost a dozen books, was perhaps best known for his book, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” which became a Hollywood movie in 1998. But he was better known for his hard-driving lifestyle and acerbic eye for truth which he used in the style of first-person reporting that came to be known as “gonzo” in the 1960’s, where the usually-anonymous reporter becomes a central character in the story, a conduit of subjectivity.
I’m sorry – best known for one thing, and even better known for another?
Jesus.
