William McKeen is the author of two and a half books on Hunter S. Thompson: Outlaw Journalist (2008), the first full-life biography; an earlier critical biography, Hunter S. Thompson (1991); and Mile Marker Zero (2011), a nonfiction narrative about Key West in the 1970s, in which Thompson doesn’t appear until the halfway point of the book. His other books include the anthologies Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay (2000), and Literary Journalism: A Reader (2000). Highway 61 (2003), is a memoir of a mammoth road trip with his eldest son, and Everybody Had an Ocean (2017), is a nonfiction narrative about the intersection of music and crime in 1970s Los Angeles. He’s also published semi-scholarly books on the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Tom Wolfe. He is a professor of journalism at Boston University and teaches courses on journalism history, literary journalism and rock n’ roll, and American culture. He previously taught at Western Kentucky University, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Florida. He has seven children and six grandchildren and lives in Rockand, Massachusetts. williammckeen.com