He started a third novel, titled The Memoirs of Dorsey Slade, but never finished it.īy 1967, Humes had developed a detoxification method for heroin addiction that involved, in his terms, micro-doses of LSD, medical-grade hashish, emergency-massage techniques, flotation exercises and breath work, which he claimed - if done correctly - would lead to a 'rebirthing' experience over a 3-5 day length of time. In 1964, Humes wrote a paper entitled "Bernoulli's Epitaph" espousing a theory of the shape of the universe as that of a spherical vortex, noting as an aside that a cross-section of a spherical vortex looks like a yin-yang symbol. He managed Lord Buckley, the great spoken word artist fought the New York City Police Department over the Cabaret Card Laws and was Norman Mailer's campaign manager for Mailer's first run for New York City mayor-a campaign that was aborted by Mailer's stabbing of his wife. Humes was reputed to have worked for several years as a meteorologist in London.
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He also directed Don Peyote, a movie starring Ojo de Vidrio, and designed and built a paper house, which he hoped would be an affordable housing alternative. Humes was mentioned in Esquire magazine (along with John Updike and William Styron) as among the nation's most promising young novelists. He wrote two novels, The Underground City ( Random House, 1958) and Men Die (Random House, 1959). Together they founded The Paris Review, a literary journal, and soon brought in George Plimpton, who would remain its editor for fifty years.Īfter returning to the United States, Humes studied fiction writing with Archibald MacLeish at Harvard Extension School, ultimately graduating with an Adjunct in Arts degree (equivalent to a standard baccalaureate degree) in 1954. Humes recruited the American Peter Matthiessen as literary editor, not knowing until much later that Matthiessen was working for the CIA at the time. In Paris, Humes owned an English language magazine called The Paris News Post, edited by Leon Kafka. He attended MIT, and did a stint in the United States Navy, but left in 1948 to go to Paris. It was there that he won his lifelong nickname, when his classmates dubbed him Doc after "Doc Huer", a brilliant scientist/nutty professor in Buck Rogers, a popular comic strip. Humes grew up in Princeton, New Jersey, and graduated from Princeton High School. Both parents were Christian Science practitioners. His mother, Alexandra Elizabeth McGonnigle, came from Montreal. His father was a chemical engineer from Michigan who studied at McGill University. When he returned to the US in 1969, he reinvented himself as a "guru on campus", a self-appointed visiting professor, and spent the next 20-odd years living on or near-campus at Columbia University, Princeton University, Bennington College, Monmouth College (now University) and Harvard University, dependent on both his family and on students who were fascinated by his mixture of erudition and mental illness. After this, he no longer published any writing.
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. He was the originator of The Paris Review literary magazine, author of two novels in the late 1950s, and a gregarious fixture of the cultural scene in Paris, London, and New York in the 1950s and early 1960s.
(– September 10, 1992) was known as HL Humes in his books, and usually as "Doc" Humes in life. MIT, undergrad, not completed Harvard (Adjunct of Arts, 1954)
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