Author

Richard Brautigan

born 1933 60 known books newest first

Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – ca. September 16, 1984) was an American novelist, poet, and short story writer. His work often clinically and surrealistically employs black comedy, parody, and satire, with emotionally blunt prose describing pastoral American life intertwining with technological progress. He is best known for his novels Trout Fishing in America (1967) and In Watermelon Sugar (1968).

Brautigan began his career as a poet, with his first collection being published in 1957. He made his debut as a novelist with A Confederate General from Big Sur (1964), about a seemingly delusional man who believes himself to be the descendant of a Confederate general. Brautigan would go on to publish numerous prose and poetry collections until 1982. He committed suicide in 1984.

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60 books
An unfortunate woman

An unfortunate woman

2000
The Tokyo-Montana express

The Tokyo-Montana express

1979
June 30th, June 30th

June 30th, June 30th

1978
Dreaming of Babylon

Dreaming of Babylon

1977
Loading mercury with a pitchfork

Loading mercury with a pitchfork

1976
Sombrero fallout

Sombrero fallout

1976
Willard and his bowling trophies

Willard and his bowling trophies

1975
The Hawkline Monster

The Hawkline Monster

1974
Revenge of the Lawn Stories 1962-1970

Revenge of the Lawn Stories 1962-1970

1971
The Abortion - An Historical Romance 1966

The Abortion - An Historical Romance 1966

1971
Rommel drives on deep into Egypt

Rommel drives on deep into Egypt

1970
Rommel drives on deep into Egypt

Rommel drives on deep into Egypt

1970
In Watermelon Sugar

In Watermelon Sugar

1968 Richard Brautigan, Richard Brautigan, and richard brautigan
Richard Brautigan's Trout fishing in America ; The pill versus the Springhill mine disaster, and In watermelon sugar

Richard Brautigan's Trout fishing in America ; The pill versus the Springhill mine disaster, and In watermelon sugar

1968
The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

1968
The Galilee hitch-hiker

The Galilee hitch-hiker

1966
A Confederate General from Big Sur

A Confederate General from Big Sur

1900
A Confederate general from Big Sur

A Confederate general from Big Sur

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A Confederate general from Big Sur

A Confederate general from Big Sur

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A Confederategeneral from Big Sur

A Confederategeneral from Big Sur

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A Confederate General from Big Sur

A Confederate General from Big Sur

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A Confederate General from Big Sur

A Confederate General from Big Sur

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A Confederate general from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline monster

A Confederate general from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and The Hawkline monster

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A half-Sunday homage to a whole L...

A half-Sunday homage to a whole Leonardo da Vinci

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All watched over by machines of l...

All watched over by machines of loving grace

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Amerika no masuzuri

Amerika no masuzuri

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Brautign 3vol Bx P

Brautign 3vol Bx P

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City Lights Journal

City Lights Journal

Year unknown Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Richard Brautigan, William Carlos Williams, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Anselm Hollo, Daniel Moore, Morton Margolis, Ed Sanders, Harold Norse, Michael McClure, W.S. et al Fowler, Ted Joans, Richard McBride, and Robert Scheer
Dreaming of Babylon

Dreaming of Babylon

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Experiencing Reading

Experiencing Reading

Year unknown Sandra G. Brown, William J. McGreevy, Countee Cullen, H. W. Janson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Stephen Crane, Robert S. Mcnamara, Eugene Linden, Marian Anderson, Lawrence Kutner, Doris Lessing, Martha Sullivan, Mary Jones, Alan Ferguson, Barbara Crossette, Gary Kleck, Allen Chaffee, Sara Teasdale, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dik Browne, Bryan Miller, Stefan Kanfer, Samuel M. Bluefarb, Victoria Roberts, Kate Chopin, Luisa Valenzuela, William Somerset Maugham, Richard Brautigan, Ray Bradbury, Marie Brenner, Sandra Blakeslee, Gina Kolata, Fanny Tillman Trueherz, Edward Brown, Maxine Hong Kingston, John Marchese, Allan Kozinn, James Barron, Carmen Collins, Janet A. Emig, Pico Iyer, Michael T. Kaufman, William Safire, John A. Gould, John Noble Wilford, Hugh Rank, Norman Cousins, Mark Mathabane, Daniel Goleman, Roszak, Theodore, and Barbara Flanagan
In Wassermelonen Zucker: Forellen...

In Wassermelonen Zucker: Forellenfischen in Amerika

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In Watermeloen Suiker

In Watermeloen Suiker

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Karpuz sekerinde

Karpuz sekerinde

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L'avortement

L'avortement

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Lay the marble tea

Lay the marble tea

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Loading mercury with a pitchfork

Loading mercury with a pitchfork

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Melonin mehu

Melonin mehu

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Mémoires sauvés du vent

Mémoires sauvés du vent

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Please plant this book

Please plant this book

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Prentice Hall Literature

Prentice Hall Literature

Year unknown Kevin Feldman, Margaret Atwood, Ray Bradbury, Lewis Carroll, Антон Павлович Чехов, Ama Ata Aidoo, Joan Aiken, Henry Alford, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Maya Angelou, Alan Axelrod, Toni Cade Bambara, Basho, Gary Blackwood, Richard Brautigan, Rachel Carson, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Chiyojo, Wayson Choy, Sandra Cisneros, Arthur C. Clarke, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Billy Collins, Richard Connell, Bill Cosby, Victor Hernández Cruz, E. E. Cummings, Guy de Maupassant, Jean de Sponde, Emily Dickinson, Lian Dolan, Arthur Conan Doyle, T. S. Eliot, Martín Espada, Felton, Harold W., Michael Frayn, Robert Frost, Chief Dan George, Pete Hamil, Edith Hamilton, Lorraine Hansberry, O. Henry, Όμηρος, Langston Hughes, James Hurst, Janet Kay Jensen, Lady Bird Johnson, John Kilgo, Martin Luther King Jr., Galway Kinnell, Adam Kirsch, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stanley Kunitz, Nelson Mandela, Scott McCloud, Elizabeth McCracken, John McPhee, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gabriela Mistral, Pat Mora, Edwin Muir, Saki, Walter Dean Myers, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Amy Ash Nixon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ovid, Edgar Allan Poe, Neil Postman, Sally Ride, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cynthia Rylant, Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare, Leslie Marmon Silko, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Dean Smith, Gary Soto, William Stafford, May Swenson, Amy Tan, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, James Thurber, Georges-G Toudouze, Mark Twain, Derek Walcott, Alice Walker, Rebecca Walker, Shaunda Kennedy Wenger, Walt Whitman, Richard Wilbur, Oscar Wilde, William Wordsworth, and Kevin Feldman
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold

Year unknown Carol Domblewski, Henry Aaron, Joan Aiken, Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Maya Angelou, Harold Apter, Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, Basho, The Beatles, Ray Bradbury, Richard Brautigan, Gladys Cardiff, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Alex Chadwick, Антон Павлович Чехов, Chiyojo, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Connell, Bill Cosby, Harold Courtlander, Victor Hernández Cruz, E. E. Cummings, Keay Davidson, Walter De la Mare, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, Arthur Conan Doyle, Daphne du Maurier, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T. S. Eliot, Horton Foote, Robert Frost, Bill Gates, Chief Dan George, Steven Gietschier, Edith Hamilton, Lorraine Hansberry, James Haskins, Ralph Helfer, O. Henry, George Herzog, Όμηρος, Langston Hughes, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, James Hurst, Shirley Jackson, Lady Bird Johnson, John Keats, Martin Luther King Jr., Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gary Larson, John Lennon, Henriqueta Lisboa, Barry Lopez, Nelson Mandela, Guy de Maupassant, Paul McCartney, Scott McCloud, John McPhee, James A. Michener, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gabriela Mistral, Joni Mitchell, Ronald D. Moore, Lillian Morrison, Edwin Muir, Saki, Walter Dean Myers, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rosa Parks, Marge Piercy, Edgar Allan Poe, Ishmael Reed, Sally Ride, Tomás Rivera, Pattiann Rogers, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Cynthia Rylant, Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare, Shu, Ting, Leslie Marmon Silko, Isaac Bashevis Singer, William Stafford, Wisława Szymborska, Amy Tan, Sara Teasdale, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, James Thurber, Mark Twain, U2, Patricia Volk, Derek Walcott, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, Walt Whitman, Bryan Wooley, William Wordsworth, and Richard Wright
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Gold Level

Year unknown Kate Kinsella, Joan Aiken, Mitch Albom, Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Rudolfo A. Anaya, Maya Angelou, Isaac Asimov, Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, Basho, Madeleine Blais, DeWitt Bodeen, Ray Bradbury, Richard Brautigan, Gladys Cardiff, Lewis Carroll, Rachel Carson, Kōnstantinos Petrou Kabaphēs, Alex Chadwick, Антон Павлович Чехов, Chiyojo, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Connell, Bill Cosby, Harold Courlander, Victor Hernández Cruz, E. E. Cummings, Keav Davidson, Walter De la Mare, Emily Dickinson, Joan Didion, Arthur Conan Doyle, Daphne du Maurier, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T. S. Eliot, Horton Foote, Robert Frost, Bill Gates, Chief Dan George, Steven Gietschier, Edith Hamilton, Lorraine Hansberry, Ralph Helfer, O. Henry, George Herzog, Όμηρος, Langston Hughes, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, James Hurst, Shirley Jackson, Lady Bird Johnson, Sebastian Junger, John Keats, John E. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Galway Kinnell, Jeffrey Kluger, Yusef Komunyakaa, Henriqueta Lisboa, Barry Lopez, Nelson Mandela, Guy de Maupassant, Scott McCloud, John McPhee, James A. Michener, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gabriela Mistral, Lillian Morrison, Edwin Muir, Walter Dean Myers, Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rosa Parks, Marge Piercy, Edgar Allan Poe, Ishmael Reed, Sally Ride, Tomás Rivera, Pattiann Rogers, Christina Georgina Rosetti, Cynthia Rylant, Saki, Carl Sandburg, David Schuyler, William Shakespeare, Leslie Marmon Silko, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gary Soto, William Stafford, Wisława Szymborska, Amy Tan, Sara Teasdale, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edward Lawrence Thayer, James Thurber, Shu, Ting, Mark Twain, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, Virginia A. Walter, Walt Whitman, Bryan Woolley, William Wordsworth, Richard Wright, and Kate Kinsella, Kevin Feldman, Colleen Shea Stump, Joyce Armstrong Carroll and Edward E. Wilson
Revenge of Lawn

Revenge of Lawn

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Revenge of the lawn

Revenge of the lawn

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Revenge of the lawn; stories, 1962-1970

Revenge of the lawn; stories, 1962-1970

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Richard Brautigan's Trout fishing...

Richard Brautigan's Trout fishing in America ; The pill versus the Springhill mine disaster ; and, In watermelon sugar

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Rommel drives on deep into Egypt

Rommel drives on deep into Egypt

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Science fact/fiction

Science fact/fiction

Year unknown Edmund J. Farrell, Robert Sheckley, Anatoly Dnieprov, Richard Brautigan, Kurt Vonnegut, Karel Čapek, David Ely, Isaac Asimov, Charles Beaumont, Jack Anderson, Robert Bloch, Arthur C. Clarke, William Morrison, Fritz Leiber, Harry Harrison, H. G. Wells, Arthur Koestler, Howard Fast, Roald Dahl, Peter Tompkins, Christopher Bird, Fredric Brown, T.P. Caravan, Damon Knight, May Swenson, Philip José Farmer, Philip J. Hilts, Marion Gross, Ray Bradbury, Jack Lewis, Jack Finney, Josephine Miles, Edmond Hamilton, Wolfgang Pauli, Walter S. Tevis, Olga Cabral, Douglas Colligan, Frederik Pohl, Alfred Bester, Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick, William Stafford, and R. Buckminster Fuller
Sombrero fallout

Sombrero fallout

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So the wind won't blow it all away

So the wind won't blow it all away

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So the wind won't blow it all away

So the wind won't blow it all away

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The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings

The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writings

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The Hawkline Monster

The Hawkline Monster

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The octopus frontier

The octopus frontier

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The pill versus the Springhill mi...

The pill versus the Springhill mine disaster

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The Tokyo-Montana express

The Tokyo-Montana express

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Trout fishing in America

Trout fishing in America

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Trout Fishing in America

Trout Fishing in America

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Willard and his bowling trophies

Willard and his bowling trophies

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Willard and His Bowling Trophies

Willard and His Bowling Trophies

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