Richard Brautigan was, at various times in his life, poet in residence at MIT, homeless, a best-selling novelist, a compulsory patient at a hospital for the insane and suicidally depressed.
Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster
Richard BrautiganDelacorte Pr 1969, Paperback, £1.60
He found fame writing prose – particularly his 1967 novel Trout Fishing in America – but he [...]