Richard Brautigan - Biography

He was born in 1935, in Tacoma,

Washington, United States. Richard was
an American novelist, poet, and
short-story writer. His work often
employs black comedy,satire, parodi, and
social criticism.
Richard Brautigan’s literary career started in the
mid-fifties in San Francisco when he became a part
of the local bohemian literary circles.
At the beginning, he was known as a poet, who very
often gave his poems away on the streets for free.
However, after being several times rejected by many
editorials, Brautigan could publish his first novel
named “A Confederate General from Big Sur” (1965)
at Grove Press.
Here there are some of his successful novels...

“Trout Fishing in America” (1967)

His best well-known novel.
“The Abortion” (1971)

“In Watermelon Sugar” (1968)

...and books of poetry, notably “The Pill Versus the Springhill

Mine Disaster” (1968), San Francisco Weather Report (1969)
By the eighties, he had already become seriously troubled by alcoholism,
which lead to his suicide in 1984.

“all of us have a place in history. mine is clouds.”

― Richard Brautigan