An American writer, born on July 18, 1973 in Louisville. He studied in a high school in Kentucky in 1955. He was accused in 2000 of accidentally shooting his assistant Deborah Fuller and he was acquitted of the charge against him. The two stories that were adapted to movies are Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in 1998 and Rum’s Memoirs in 2011, starring Johnny Depp. Hunter married Sundi Wright in 1963 and had one child, then they separated and married Anita Thompson in the spring of 2003, who passed away after two years of their marriage. Thompson passed away on February 20, 2005.