The Rum Diary (novel)

The Rum Diary
First US edition
AuthorHunter S. Thompson
LanguageEnglish
PublisherSimon & Schuster (US)
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK)
Publication date
1998
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages213 pp
ISBN0-684-85521-6
OCLC42751248
Preceded byHell'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 It is Thompson's second novel, preceded by the still-unpublished Prince Jellyfish.

  1. ^ "The Rum Diary: The Long Lost Novel". Publishers Weekly. November 2, 1998.
  2. ^ "The Rum Diary". Salon. October 15, 1998.
  3. ^ Olsen, Mark (23 October 2011). "Indie Focus: 'The Rum Diary' pours forth anew". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 19, 2013.