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Mistah Leary – He Dead is a chapbook written by American author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson and published by the X-Ray Book Co. in 1997.
The book serves as a eulogy for psychologist and psychedelic drug researcher/advocate Timothy Leary (1920–1996). It contains an obituary Thompson wrote for Leary that first appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine. The book also contains a simulated blotter sheet on which Dr. Leary's likeness is printed and other Leary-related artifacts.
The book was hand-sewn and hand-printed at The New Orleans School of GlassWorks and Printmaking Studio, with a print run of only 300 hand-numbered copies. In addition, 26 special lettered copies were also produced.
The title is a play off of "Mistah Kurtz, he dead," the epitaph for Joseph Conrad's mining official gone native in Heart of Darkness. It was also the epigraph for T. S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men".
External links
Works by or about Hunter S. Thompson Novels - Prince Jellyfish
- The Rum Diary
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Short stories Short story collections Essay collections The Gonzo Papers - Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
- The Proud Highway
- Fear and Loathing in America
- Kingdom of Fear
- Hey Rube
- The Mutineer
Articles Non-fiction - Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
- Gonzo: Photographs by Hunter S. Thompson
- The Curse of Lono
- Mistah Leary – He Dead
Film adaptations - Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
- The Rum Diary (2011)
Documentaries - Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hollywood (1978)
- Breakfast with Hunter (2003)
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)
- Bibliography of Hunter S. Thompson
- Gonzo journalism
Categories:- 1997 books
- Books by Hunter S. Thompson
- Non-fiction book stubs
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