Jubilee Hitchhiker: The Life and Times of Richard Brautigan
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Swearingen, Bud
Sweet William. See Fritsch, William (Bill)
Sweet Willie Tumbleweed. See Fritsch, William (Bill)
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Swigart, Rob
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Victoria. See Domagalski, Victoria
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acknowledgments
TWO DECADES IS a long time to spend on a single project. At the end of the journey, I want to thank all those who shared their memories with me. I’m in debt to everyone who agreed to be interviewed. It’s sad to tally how many have been lost along the way. The list is twenty-years long, and many who generously gave their time are no longer here to receive my appreciation. In my heart, I’ll be forever grateful to them all.
Special thanks are due to those without whose help this book would never have been finished.
Ted Latty’s archive of original Brautigan material filled many of the gaps in Richard’s life story. Almost everything not housed in the Bancroft Library at U.C. Berkeley can be found in Latty’s collection. While making this material available, Ted welcomed me as a guest in his home, let me use his office copying machine, and expedited much of the transcription that the project required. Words aren’t sufficient for the thanks I owe him.
Tim Cahill, a friend and fellow writer who lives about two blocks away in Livingston, Montana, began researching his own Brautigan biography soon after Richard died. By the time Tim decided life was too short for such a project, he’d conducted more than two dozen interviews and very generously turned his tapes and transcriptions, along with copies of Seymour Lawrence’s and Helen Brann’s office files, over to me. Without this material I would have been lost. Several of Cahill’s subjects had second thoughts about talking on the record by the time I became involved. Thanks, Tim.
Dr. John F. Barber has maintained an interest in Richard Brautigan since being his student at Montana State University in 1982. Barber published the first unique Brautigan bibliography in 1990. He spent years creating the www.brautigan.net website, a true labor of love. John has long been an enthusiastic supporter of this biography, and we’ve traded information about Richard for more than a decade. His help has been invaluable.
Anthony Bliss, Curator of Rare Books and Literary Manuscripts at the Bancroft Library, always provided expert guidance and kind assistance during my many long hours of archival research, an endeavor spanning almost a decade. Close to the end, I needed to verify certain exact quotes, and a trip from Livingston to Berkeley wasn’t feasible. Tony rolled up his sleeves and did the work for me. I’m forever grateful.
Greg Keeler and Keith Abbott are friends and fellow writers who have both published memoirs about Richard Brautigan. They have been very generous with their time, always willing to answer my questions and supply useful information. Greg additionally has allowed me to use several photographs and images from his personal collection. A thousand thanks, guys.
Valerie Estes and Masako Kano, two of the many women in Brautigan’s life that I interviewed, became friends and constant correspondents. Masako provided translations from the Japanese whenever needed. I’m indebted to both for their candor and insightful observation. If gratitude were flowers, I’d be sending them each a huge bouquet.
Greg Miller is another passionate Richard Brautigan fan and collector. We’ve never met, yet he generously copied material from his archive for my use and supplied a previously unpublished photograph of Richard, which is reproduced in this book. Thanks, Greg.
Samantha Childs was still
in high school when I asked her to photocopy Donald Allen’s correspondence (regarding Richard Brautigan) archived at the University of California San Diego. She’s working on her master’s degree thesis now. Thanks, Sam, for saving me a trip to SoCal.
Valerie Chazot earned my lasting appreciation for translating articles about Brautigan in the French media when my limited knowledge of her native tongue proved inadequate for the task. Merci beaucoup, Valerie.
Barbara Fitzhugh (Brautigan’s sister) and her husband, Jim, not only granted numerous interviews but also fed me several times at their home. Thanks for the delicious meals and the gift of a railroad lantern, which has been a handy tool up at my cabin.
Ianthe Brautigan and her filmmaker husband, Paul Swensen, provided encouragement and advice from the moment I started writing the book. Ianthe’s memoir about her father offered a view of Richard from a child’s perspective, which proved very useful to me. I hope this biography lives up to their expectations.
Also, I’m extremely grateful to Erik Weber for both agreeing to be interviewed and permitting the use of eleven of his fine photographs in my biography. For almost two decades, Weber chronicled Brautigan’s life on film, a powerful visual record of the writer’s spectacular rise and inevitable fall. Thanks for your vision, Erik.
Some of the work needed for this book was done for hire. Nevertheless, excellence should be rewarded with something more than a paycheck, and I’d like to thank Warren Bittner of Ancestors Lost and Found in Centerville, Utah, for all the fine genealogical research, Gloria Thiede for her skilled transcription typing, and Gil Stober of Peak Recordings in Bozeman, Montana, for re-mastering a number of defective, inaudible interview tapes. Kudos also to Kelly Winton at Counterpoint for undertaking the thousands of nameless tasks involved in book production and Kirsten Janene-Nelson for a superlative job of freelance copyediting.
Finally, thanks must go out to two men without whose efforts and encouragement this biography might never have made it into print. My agent, Ben Camardi, never ceased believing in the project, even when everything seemed hopeless. Jack Shoemaker not only was a friend of Richard Brautigan and agreed to several interviews, but he is also the publisher of this book. I am deeply indebted to both of them for keeping the faith over all these years.
Jubillee Hitchhiker copyright © William Hjortsberg 2012
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Quotations from unpublished material by Richard Brautigan are copyright Ianthe Brautigan 2012 and are used with her permission. Quotations from unpublished material by Dick Dillof are copyright Richard Dillof 2012 and used with his permission. Quotations from the unpublished journals of Marcia Clay copyright Marcia Clay 2012 and used with her permission. Quotations from the unpublished journals and letters of Valerie Estes are copyright Valerie Estes 2012 and used with her permission. Quotations from the unpublished letters of Akiko Sakagami are copyright Akiko Sakagami 2012 and used with her permission. Quotations from the unpublished letters of Masako Kano are copyright Masako Kano 2012 and used with her permission. Quotations from the unpublished letters of Seymour Lawrence are copyright Seymour Lawrence 2012 and used with his permission. Quotations from the unpublished letters of Helen Brann are copyright Helen Brann 2012 and used with her permission. Photographs by Erik Weber. Copyright Erik Weber. Used by permisssion. Photograph by Roger Ressmeyer. Copyright Roger Ressmeyer. Used by permission. Photograph by Masako Kano. Copyright Masako Kano 2012. Used by permission. Photograph by Dr. John Doss. Copyright John Doss 2012. Used by permission. Photograph by George Bennett. Copyright George Bennett 2012. Used by permission. Photograph by Quintin Barton. Copyright Quintin Barton 2012. Used by permission. Painting by Greg Keeler. Copyright Greg Keeler 2012. Used by permission. Photograph by Rhyder McClure. Copyright Rhyder McClure 1968. Used by permission. Parts of this book have appeared in different versions in the following publications: Big Sky Journal, Arts Issue, 2002; Tacoma City Arts, April, 2009; Richard Brautigan, Essays on the Writings and Life, Edited by John F. Barber, 2007.