# Grover Lewis

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{{short description|American journalist}}
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| name        = Grover Lewis
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| birth_date  = November 8, 1934
| birth_place = [San Antonio](/source/San_Antonio)
| death_date  = April 16, 1995
| death_place = Los Angeles
| occupation  = Journalist, writer, editor
| genre       = Non-fiction, poetry
| movement    = [New Journalism](/source/New_Journalism)
| nationality = American
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'''Grover Lewis''' (November 8, 1934 – April 16, 1995) was an American journalist now regarded as one of the forerunners of [new journalism](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Paul_Newman) and [The Allman Brothers Band](/source/The_Allman_Brothers_Band), and an influential piece written about ''[The Last Picture Show](/source/The_Last_Picture_Show)''. He also did freelance work for ''[The Village Voice](/source/The_Village_Voice)'' and ''[Texas Monthly](/source/Texas_Monthly)'', and was an editor and contributor to ''[Rolling Stone](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Jan_Reid) and [W.K. Stratton](/source/W._K._Stratton_(writer)), a foreword by [Dave Hickey](/source/Dave_Hickey), and a remembrance by [Robert Draper](/source/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](/source/The_New_York_Times) |date=April 3, 2005}}</ref>

Lewis was close friends with [Gustav Hasford](/source/Gustav_Hasford), author of ''[The Short-Timers](/source/The_Short-Timers)'', the book that was adapted into the feature film ''[Full Metal Jacket](/source/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==
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! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
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|1971|| ''[The Last Picture Show](/source/The_Last_Picture_Show)'' || Mr. Crawford ||
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|1972|| ''[The Candidate](/source/The_Candidate_(1972_film))'' || Himself (Rolling Stone) || (final film role)
|}

==References==
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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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