H.L. Humes

Harold Louis "Doc" Humes Jr. was an American author, journalist, and founding editor of The Paris Review. 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 United States in 1969, he reinvented himself as a "guru on campus", a self-appointed visiting professor, and spent the next twenty-odd years living on or near-campus at Columbia University, Princeton University, Bennington College, Monmouth University, and Harvard University, dependent on both his family and on students who were fascinated by his mixture of erudition and mental illness.