For ten points, name this author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
This author's first book was a nonfiction novel about a Labor Day picnic on BassLake led by Sonny Barger. This man wrote a memoir of forming the Freak Powerparty and running for mayor of (+) Aspen, Colorado. In a piece written for Scanlan'sMonthly, he wrote about working with illustrator Ralph Steadman to cover a horse race, and in a later work, he wrote about covering the Mint 400 motorcycle race. In that work, this author of (*) Hell's Angels and The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved wrote of visiting the Circus-Circus Casino with his attorney while under the influence of mescaline and ether. For ten points, name this author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
This author's first book was a nonfiction novel about a Labor Day picnic on BassLake led by Sonny Barger.
Hunter S(tockton) Thompson                                                                                                                                                                                                             