Harold L. Humes
American novelist and counterculture figure (1926–1992) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Harold Louis Humes, Jr. (May 11, 1926 – September 10, 1992) was known as HL Humes in his books, and usually as "Doc" Humes in life. He was the originator of The Paris Review literary magazine, author of two novels in the late 1950s, and a gregarious fixture of the cultural scene in Paris, London, and New York in the 1950s and early 1960s.
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Harold Louis Humes, Jr. | |
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Born | (1926-05-11)May 11, 1926 Douglas, Arizona, US |
Died | September 10, 1992 (1992-09-11) (aged 66) New York City, US |
Occupation | Novelist Journalist Editor-in-chief Teacher |
Education | MIT, undergrad, not completed; Harvard Extension School (Adjunct of Arts, 1954) |
In 1966, in London, he took large amounts of LSD, which was given to him by Timothy Leary, and he became paranoid and sometimes delusional. After this, he no longer published any writing. When he returned to the US in 1969, he reinvented himself as a "guru on campus", a self-appointed visiting professor, and spent the next 20-odd years living on or near-campus at Columbia University, Princeton University, Bennington College, Monmouth College (now University) and Harvard University, dependent on both his family and on students who were fascinated by his mixture of erudition and mental illness.