William J. Craddock | |
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 Craddock, 1960s (Metro Silicon Valley July 12, 2012) | |
| Born | William J. Craddock July 16, 1946 Los Gatos, California, U.S. |
| Died | March 16, 2004 (aged 57) Santa Cruz, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genre | Psychedelic, 1960s |
| Subject | motorcycles, counterculture |
| Notable works | Twilight Candelabra Be Not Content: A Subterranean Journal 1970) |
William J. "Billy" Craddock (July 16, 1946 – March 16, 2004) was an American author who published two novels in the early 1970s chronicling psychedelic and biker culture in California in the 1960s.[1] Doubleday published Craddock's books Be Not Content: A Subterranean Journal in 1970, and Twilight Candelabra in 1972. Craddock has been called one of the seminal chroniclers of the psychedelic period,[2] along with Timothy Leary, Alan Watts and Andrew Weil.
- ^ "Obituary", Los Gatos Weekly-Times (Palo Alto, CA), Wednesday, April 7, 2004 (Source: NewsBank last accessed November 12, 2013)
- ^ Peter Haining, ed. (1998). The Walls of Illusion: A Psychedelic Retro. Souvenir Press Limited. ISBN 9780285634145. Retrieved 2013-10-09.