{{short description|American journalist}} {{distinguish|Grover Lewis (baseball)}} {{More citations needed|date=February 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see WP:NONFREE -->| | name = Grover Lewis | caption = | birth_date = November 8, 1934 | birth_place = San Antonio | death_date = April 16, 1995 | death_place = Los Angeles | occupation = Journalist, writer, editor | genre = Non-fiction, poetry | movement = New Journalism | nationality = American }} '''Grover Lewis''' (November 8, 1934 – April 16, 1995) was an American journalist now regarded as one of the forerunners of new journalism.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-06-25-bk-16812-story.html |title=Grover Lewis: An Appreciation |last=Hickey |first=Dave |date=June 22, 1995 |website=The Los Angeles Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thewittliffcollections.txstate.edu/research/a-z/lewis.html |title=Grover Lewis: The Wittliff Collections |website=The Wittliff Collections, Texas State University }}</ref> His lengthy examinations of film, music and more in the 1970s included profiles of Paul Newman and The Allman Brothers Band, and an influential piece written about ''The Last Picture Show''. He also did freelance work for ''The Village Voice'' and ''Texas Monthly'', and was an editor and contributor to ''Rolling Stone''.

Lewis published two books during his lifetime: ''I'll Be There in the Morning If I Live'', a book of poetry, and ''Academy All the Way'', a collection of essays he wrote for ''Rolling Stone''. In 2005, the University of Texas Press released a compendium of his entire career entitled ''Splendor in the Short Grass'', edited by and with an introduction by Jan Reid and W.K. Stratton, a foreword by Dave Hickey, and a remembrance by Robert Draper.

==Books== * ''I'll Be There in the Morning If I Live'' (poetry) * ''Academy All the Way'' (collection) * ''Splendor in the Short Grass'' (collection)

==Personal life== When he was 8 years old, his parents, Grover Sr. and Opal, "shot each other to death with a pawnshop pistol".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Blount |first1=Roy Jr |author1-link=Roy Blount Jr. |title='Splendor in the Short Grass': Romancing the Stoned |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/books/review/splendor-in-the-short-grass-romancing-the-stoned.html |access-date=October 3, 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=April 3, 2005}}</ref>

Lewis was close friends with Gustav Hasford, author of ''The Short-Timers'', the book that was adapted into the feature film ''Full Metal Jacket''. Lewis wrote in-depth essays on Hasford at the height of his notoriety and after his death.{{citation needed|date=February 2025}}

==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1971|| ''The Last Picture Show'' || Mr. Crawford || |- |1972|| ''The Candidate'' || Himself (Rolling Stone) || (final film role) |}

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==External links== *[https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/books/review/03BLOUNTL.html?pagewanted=all ''New York Times'' review of ''Splendor in the Short Grass''] *[http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/lewspl.html University of Texas Press website]

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