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In early May 1974, I was in 12th grade in northeastern Pennsylvania. It was almost summer, and the sun was palpable through the windows of the physics class. The teacher was a bald-headed older man we called the Admiral. He was droning on about the periodic table of elements. It all seemed like lead, and I was about to drop off. At about that point, a pretty hippie girl who sat behind me in the class passed me a green book with a photo of a gorgeous woman on the cover sitting before a chocolate cake. I opened the book at random, and read this:

The Scarlatti Tilt
"It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play the violin." That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver.

Those two sentences constituted an entire story. I read it six times. Accustomed to loquacious Poe and Henry James, I was amazed at the precision: San Jose, the violin, the empty revolver, Scarlatti. Pure gold. I kept the book, and I still have it forty years later. I have all of Brautigan's books, in fact, but h

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Richard Brautigan

Much of the information regarding Richard Brautigan’s life and death is uncertain. He was born on January 30, 1935, in Tacoma, Washington. His father left home before he was born, and his childhood was apparently a troubled one marked by poverty. He did not attend college. At some point in the mid-1950s, he left home for San Francisco, where he became involved in the Beat scene. Although Brautigan, whose work largely defies classification, is not properly considered a Beat writer, he shared the Beats’ aversion to middle-class values, commercialism, and conformity.

Brautigan’s success as a poet was marginal. He published several slim volumes, all with small presses, but none of these received much recognition. It was not until the publication of Trout Fishing in America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1967), which many consider his best novel, that Brautigan caught the public’s attention and was transformed into a cult hero. He received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1969. By 1970, Trout Fishing in America had become the namesake of

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Richard Brautigan

American writer (1935–1984)

Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – c. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. A prolific writer, he wrote throughout his life and published ten novels, two collections of short stories, and four books of poetry. Brautigan's work has been published both in the United States and internationally throughout Europe, Japan, and China. He is best known for his novels Trout Fishing in America (1967), In Watermelon Sugar (1968), and The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 (1971).

Early life

Brautigan was born in Tacoma, Washington, the only child of Bernard Frederick "Ben" Brautigan Jr. (July 29, 1908 – May 27, 1994), a factory worker and laborer, and Lulu Mary "Mary Lou" Keho (April 7, 1911 – September 24, 2005), a waitress. In May 1934, eight months before Richard's birth, Bernard and Mary Lou separated.

Brautigan said that he met his biological father only twice. But after Richard's death, Bernard appeared to have been una