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Richard Gary Brautigan, 1935-1984

American novelist, short story writer, and poet.

1935 Born 30 January in Tacoma, Washington, oldest child of Bernard F. Brautigan and Mary Lull Brautigan. Very little is known about his childhood, which he refused to discuss. Some sources say that Brautigan never knew his father, others say that his father never knew of him until Brautigan's death was announced 1955? Allegedly committed to Oregon State Hospital after throwing rock through police station window, diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic and given shock therapy treatments. Left home soon after release from hospital. 1955 1958? Moved to San Francisco and became involved with the Beat Movement. 1956 The Second Kingdom, first known poem, published. 1957 Married Virginia Dionne Adler in Reno, Nevada, 8 June. 1957 1958? The Return of the Rivers, a single poem, published. 1958 The Galilee Hitch-Hiker, a single poem, published 1959 Lay the Marble Tea published, collection of twenty-four poems. 1960 The Octopus Frontier published. Daughter Ianthe born, 25 March. 1961 Spent summer camping with family in Idaho's Stanley Basin and wrote Trout Fishing in America on a portable typewriter alongside the trout streams. 1964 A Confederate General from Big Sur published. Involved with the Diggers and the hippies of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district and often gave away copies of his poems on the streets. 1966 1967 Poet-in-residence at California Institute of Techonolgy . 1967 Trout Fishing in America published All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace published. 1968 Awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. In Watermelon Sugar and The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster published. Please Plant This Book also published: eight seed packets, each containing seeds, with poems printed on the sides. 1969 Trout Fishing in America,The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar published in collection. 1970 Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt published. Divorced from Virginia, 28 July, in San Francisco. The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 published. 1971 The Revenge of the Lawn published. 1972 1973? Establishes a residence in Pine Creek, Montana, just north of Yellowstone National Park. Allegedly refuses to deliver lectures or grant interviews for the next eight years. 1974 The Hawkline Monster published. 1975 Willard and His Bowling Trophies and Loading Mercury with a Pitchfork published. 1976 Sombrero Fallout published. 1977 Dreaming of Babylon published. 1978 June 30th, June 30th published. The Abortion,The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster,Trout Fishing in America,Rommel Drives On Deep into Egypt, and A Confederate General from Big Sur banned in Union Hills High School in northern California. ACLU case decided in favor of Brautigan and his publisher. 1979 At December meeting of Modern Language Association in San Francisco, participated in a panel discussion concerning Zen and Contemporary Poetry with Gary Snyder,Philip Whalen,Robert Bly, and Lucien Stryk. 1980 The Tokyo-Montana Express published. Begins lecture/promotion tour. 1982 So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away published. 1984 Commits suicide in house in Bolinas, California. Body discovered 25 October.

Chronology excerpted from Richard Brautigan: an Annotated Bibliography, by John F. Barber. (McFarland & Company, Inc., 1990)

For more information on Richard Brautigan see the website Brautigan Bibliography and Archive: The Works and Life of Richard Brautigan, by John F. Barber at http://www.brautigan.net/

From the guide to the Richard Brautigan Papers, 1942-2003, (bulk 1958-1984), (The Bancroft Library.)

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