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“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” (The beginning of his most famous book, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.")

DENVER - Hunter S. Thompson, the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America’s underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” has committed suicide.

Thompson was found dead Sunday in his Aspen-area home of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, sheriff’s officials said. He was 67.