Harold L. Humes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Harold L. Humes

American novelist and counterculture figure

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1926

Place of Birth: Douglas, Arizona, United States

Date of Death: 10-Sep-1992

Profession: novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Harold Louis Humes, Jr.
(May 11, 1926 – September 10, 1992) was known as HL Humes in his books, and usually as "Doc" Humes in life.
He was the originator of The Paris Review literary magazine, author of two novels in the late 1950s, and a gregarious fixture of the cultural scene in Paris, London, and New York in the 1950s and early 1960s.
He was a champion talker, activist, filmmaker, architect, and contemporary Don Quixote. In 1966, in London, he took large amounts of LSD, which was given to him by Timothy Leary, and he became paranoid and sometimes delusional.
After this, he no longer published any writing.
When he returned to the US in 1969, he reinvented himself as a "guru on campus", a self-appointed visiting professor, and spent the next 20-odd years living on or near-campus at Columbia University, Princeton University, Bennington College, and Harvard University, dependent on both his family and on students who were fascinated by his mixture of erudition and mental illness.