Raymond Mungo (born 1946) 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
Boston University
Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original c ...
, 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 (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vie ...
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In 1967, Mungo co-founded the
Liberation News Service (LNS), an alternative news agency, along with
Marshall Bloom
Marshall Irving Bloom (July 16, 1944 – November 1, 1969) was an American journalist and activist, best known as co-founder in 1967 of the Liberation News Service, the "Associated Press" of the underground press.
Early life and education
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LNS split off from
Collegiate Press Service (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
Washington, D.C. Mungo descriptively details this event in his book, ''Famous Long Ago: My Life and Hard Times with the Liberation News Service''.
In 1968, he moved to
Vermont
Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the ...
with
Verandah Porche and others as part of the
back-to-the-land movement.
Mungo continued to write through the 1970s and 1980s; however, in 1997 his career path took a different turn. When he wrote ''Palm Springs Babylon'' in 1993 he lived in
Palm Springs, California. He completed a master's degree in counseling and began working with the severely mentally ill and with
AIDS patients in Los Angeles. Mungo visited France in 2000 and briefly considered relocating there.
Published works
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* 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.
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References
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1946 births
Living people
News agency founders
American anti–Vietnam War activists
People from Lawrence, Massachusetts
Boston University alumni
American male writers