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“A long time ago this was our future.”
— Richard Brautigan
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Twenty-year-old literary hopeful Richard Brautigan left his hometown of Eugene, Oregon in 1955 for San Francisco's burgeoning Beat scene.
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Richard Brautigan listing at Internet Movie Database
Richard Brautigan entry at Wikipedia
Novels
"A Confederate General From Big Sur" [1964] ISBN 0-224-61923-3) 0395547032
"Trout Fishing In America" poetic novel [written 1961, published 1967] ISBN 0-395-50076-1)
"In Watermelon Sugar" [written 1964, published 1968] ISBN 0-440-34026-8)
"The Abortion: An Historical Romance" [1966] (1971 ISBN 0-671-20872-1)
"The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western" [1974] ISBN 0-671-21809-3)
"Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery" [1975] ISBN 0-671-22065-9)
"Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel" [1976] ISBN 0-671-22331-3)
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"Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel, 1942" [1977]
A goofball, down-and-out private eye in New Orleans fantasizes a better life. Delacorte Press pb [10/78] out of print/used Delacorte Press hardcover [1/77] out of print/many used Jonathan Cape hardcover [4/78] out of print/used |
"So The Wind Won't Blow It All Away" [written 1979, published 1982] ISBN 0-395-70674-2)
"An Unfortunate Woman: A Journey" [written 1982, published 1994] ISBN 0-312-27710-5)
Other Works
"The God of The Martians" [1955 unpublished novel]
"The Return of The Rivers" [1958]
"The Galilee Hitch-Hiker" [1958]
"Lay The Marble Tea" [1959]
"The Octopus Frontier" [1960]
"All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace" [1963]
"Please Plant This Book" [1968]
"The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster" [1968]
"Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt" [1970]
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"Listening To Richard Brautigan" [1970 spoken-word album]
Collector's Choice Expanded Edition audio CD [1/2005] for $12.98 Richard Brautigan reads thirty poems from "The Pill Versus The Springhill Mine Disaster", five stories from "Revenge of The Lawn", and selections from three novels: "A Confederate General From Big Sur", "Trout Fishing In America", and "In Watermelon Sugar"; the expanded CD edition includes extras |
"Revenge of The Lawn: Stories 1962-1970" [1971] ISBN 0-671-20960-4)
"Loading Mercury With A Pitchfork" [1971]
ISBN 0-671-22263-5. ISBN 0-671-22271-6 pbk)
"June 30th, June 30th" [1978] ISBN 0-440-04295-X)
"The Tokyo-Montana Express" [1980] ISBN 0-440-08770-8)
"Trailer" spec script [1982; unproduced]
Co-written by Richard Brautigan & Brad Donovan; about eccentric characters living in a mobile home park
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"Richard Brautigan: The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings" [1999] Edited by Peter Webster Over the years, Brautigan gave stories & poems to his surrogate mother Edna Webster 'to publish or to keep'; her son Peter published them in 1999. Included here are several poems & stories written when Brautigan was a teen; the stories are "A Visit From Jake", "Would You Like To Saddle Up A Couple of Goldfish and Swim To Alaska?", and "Desire In A Bowl of Potatoes". Delacorte / Mariner Books 8x5½ pb [8/99] for $10.20 |
"Grandpa's Marijuana Handbook: The Movie" [1999 video release]
Written & produced by Evan Keliher; directed & edited by David Keliher;
Brautigan is credited as lighting technician; video/DVD not available;
full credits from IMDb
Works About Richard Brautigan
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"You Can't Catch Death: A Daughter's Memoir" [2000] by Ianthe Brautigan St. Martin's Griffin 8¼x5½ pb [7/2001] out of print/used St. Martin's Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [5/2000] out of print/many used |
"Richard Brautigan: Essays On The Writings and Life" []
by John F. Barber (Paperback - Nov 15, 2006) 0786425253
"Richard Brautigan: An Annotated Bibliography" [] by John F. Barber
"Downstream From Trout Fishing In America: A Memoir of Richard Brautigan" []
by Keith Abbott (Hardcover - Mar 1989) 0884962938 + 0884963047
"Waltzing With The Captain: Remembering Richard Brautigan" []
by Greg Keeler (Paperback - April 30, 2004)
0931659930
"A la recherche de Richard Brautigan" [] by Thierry Séchan & Philippe Dijan
(Paperback - April 23, 2003)
2859205233/
"Richard Brautigan: An Annotated Bibliography" [] by John F. Barber
"Richard Brautigan" [] by Marc Chenetier
"Richard Brautigan" [] by Edward Halsey Foster
"Richard Brautigan" [] by Jay Boyer
Links
Brautigan Bibliography and Archive - John F. Barber, Curator
The Brautigan Archives {requires Flash}
JL's Richard Brautigan fansite
limited edition prints of Richard Brautigan photos [1963-78]
Grammy-nominated Trout Fishing In America folk duo
Book & tape sales in association with 
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