Bill Cardoso

William Joseph "Bill" Cardoso (September 24, 1937 - February 26, 2006) was an American journalist who was well-known for coining the term "gonzo journalism". Cardoso was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in Somerville, Massachusetts. He was the youngest of three brothers and had one daughter, Linda Cardoso. He studied journalism at Boston University and in 1967 he joined the Boston Globe and shortly thereafter became editor of the Globe Sunday magazine. He eventually settled in California. While not as well-known as his literary friends, he wrote for many publications in the 1960s and 1970s such as Crawdaddy!, Harper's Weekly, New Times, Ramparts, and Rolling Stone. He was also a good friend of Hunter S. Thompson and was...