"McKeen deftly takes us through the lows and highs .... Admirable ... haunting."
- Christopher Hitchens in The Sunday Times (London)
“[McKeen] gets it all in: the boozing and drugging, the histrionics, the womanizing,
the violence, but also the intelligence, the loyalty, the inherent decency.”
- Jonathan Yardley in The Washington Post
"Essential." - Brett Sokol, The Miami Herald
"The best record to date of Thompson's life."
- Michael Washburn, The New York Observer
"Outlaw Journalist does what a good biography should do:
It makes you feel as though you knew the person."
- Charles Gershman, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"As Hunter's wife, I strongly recommend this book to you."
- Anita Thompson