Raymond A. Mungo (born

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) is an American author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books. He writes about business, economics, and financial matters as well as cultural issues. In the 1960s, he attended

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, where he served as editor of the ''Boston University News'' in 1966-67, his senior year; and where, as a student leader, he spearheaded demonstrations against the

Vietnam War The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam w ...

. In 1967, Mungo co-founded the

Liberation News Service Liberation News Service (LNS) was a New Left, anti-war underground press news agency that distributed news bulletins and photographs to hundreds of subscribing underground, alternative and radical newspapers from 1967 to 1981. Considered the "Asso ...

(LNS), an alternative news agency, along with

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. LNS split off from

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(CPS) in a political dispute. The founding event was a notably tumultuous meeting that transpired not far from the offices of CPS on Church Street in

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Mungo descriptively details this event in his book, ''Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times with the Liberation News Service'', published in 1970. In 1968, he moved to

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with

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and others as part of the

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. Mungo continued to write through the 1970s and 1980s. When he wrote ''Palm Springs Babylon'' in 1993 he lived in

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. In 1997, however, his career path took a different turn. He completed a

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in counseling and began working with the severely mentally ill and with

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patients in Los Angeles. Mungo visited France in 2000 and briefly considered relocating there.

Published works

* * * * Photos by Peter Simon. * (Fiction) * * * — trilogy containing ''Famous Long Ago'', ''Total Loss Farm'', and ''Return to Sender'' in one paperback edition. * * * * * — trilogy of ''Famous Long Ago'', ''Total Loss Farm'', and ''Return to Sender'' in one paperback edition. * * * * * Series editor: Martin Duberman. *

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mungo, Raymond 1946 births American anti–Vietnam War activists American male writers Boston University alumni Living people News agency founders Writers from Lawrence, Massachusetts