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| Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster (US) Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK) |
Publication date | 1998 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 213 pp |
| ISBN | 0-684-85521-6 |
| OCLC | 42751248 |
| Preceded by | Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga |
The Rum Diary is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Thompson.[1][2] It was written in the early 1960s but was not published until 1998. The manuscript, begun in 1959, was discovered among Thompson's papers by Johnny Depp.[3] The story involves a journalist named Paul Kemp who, in the 1950s, moves from New York to work for a major newspaper, The Daily News, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is Thompson's second novel, preceded by the still-unpublished Prince Jellyfish.
- ^ "The Rum Diary: The Long Lost Novel". Publishers Weekly. November 2, 1998.
- ^ "The Rum Diary". Salon. October 15, 1998.
- ^ Olsen, Mark (23 October 2011). "Indie Focus: 'The Rum Diary' pours forth anew". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 19, 2013.