Richard Brautigan was born in 1935 to a waitress and raised in ... Brautigan spent his nights hunched over his typewriter, sending off poems and stories to be rejected by The Atlantic, The New Yorker, ...

The writer was welded to his portable Royal typewriter and seldom ... of aspiring writers beguiled by Brautigan’s prose. Clever and brief, Richard Brautigan’s fragmented works are a pastiche ...

John F. Barber, faculty member in the WSU Vancouver creative media and digital culture program, will speak about the renowned Washington-born author Richard Brautigan at a poetry night hosted by ...

Richard Brautigan achieved rock star status before his banishment to the literary wilderness led him to shoot himself in the head. Jarvis Cocker explains his infatuation. Show more When Jarvis ...

Many attempts have been made to define Richard Brautigan’s work – Beat, scat, Zen Buddhist, magical-realist, hippie, cult, outsider, naive, pacific, lunatic. Nowhere is his work’s resistance ...

When Richard Brautigan died in 1984, control of his literary estate fell to his daughter, Ianthe Brautigan Swensen. A writer and instructor at Sonoma State University (she’s the baby who appears ...

Richard Brautigan with his daughter Ianthe and friend Michelle Legrand Credit: Photo: Edmund Shea This picture is an outtake from a photo-shoot that took place in 1968. My father, the writer ...

The December issue of Harper’s Magazine includes a five-page essay, “Man Underwater: The democratic fiction of Richard Brautigan.” The author, Wes Enzinna, described visiting Vancouver in May.

New Regency has acquired the film rights to the long-gestating adaptation of Richard Brautigan’s Gothic Western novel The Hawkline Monster which the legendary Hal Ashby had been trying to get to ...