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Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. He rose to prominence with the publication of Hell's Angels (1967), a book for which he spent a year living with the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of their lives and experiences.
William Seward Burroughs II (/ ˈ b ʌr oʊ z /; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist. He is widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature.
Jill Thompson (born November 20, 1966) [1] is an American illustrator and writer who has worked for stage, film, and television. Well known for her work on Neil Gaiman's The Sandman characters and her own Scary Godmother series, she has worked on The Invisibles, Swamp Thing, and Wonder Woman as well.
Ernest Thompson Seton (born Ernest Evan Thompson [1] August 14, 1860 – October 23, 1946) was a Canadian and American author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians in 1902 (renamed Woodcraft League of America), and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) in 1910.
William Thompson Walters (May 23, 1820 – November 22, 1894) [1] was an American businessman and art collector, whose collection formed the basis of the Walters Art Museum. Early life and education [ edit ]
Thompson was born in New York City on December 18, 1931, to William and Marie Thompson, who had met while attending the University of Arizona. [2] The Thompsons were a wealthy family who had made a large part of their fortune through mining operations in Arizona carried out by Bill's great-uncle, William Boyce Thompson, and grandfather, J. E. Thompson.
After having read parts of Alexander William Kinglake's Invasion of the Crimea, Thompson painted studies of Crimean veterans in 1873 before working on the larger painting. Thompson—then 26 years old and almost unknown—submitted the painting to the Royal Academy for exhibition at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1874.
Elizabeth, Lady Butler's signature. Elizabeth Southerden Thompson (3 November 1846 – 2 October 1933), later known as Lady Butler, [1] was a British painter who specialised in painting scenes from British military campaigns and battles, including the Crimean War and the Napoleonic Wars.