Oscar Zeta Acosta | |
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Born | Oscar Acosta Fierro[1] April 8, 1935 |
Disappeared | May 27, 1974 Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico[2] | (aged 39)
Status | Missing, presumed dead |
Education | San Francisco State University (BA) San Francisco Law School (JD) |
Occupation(s) | Attorney, author, activist |
Known for | Activism, friendship with Hunter S. Thompson |
Notable work | Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo The Revolt of the Cockroach People |
Movement | Chicano Movement |
Oscar "Zeta" Acosta Fierro (/əˈkɒstə/; April 8, 1935 – disappeared 1974) was a Mexican American attorney, author and activist in the Chicano Movement. He wrote the semi-autobiographical novels Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and The Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973),[3] and was friends with American author Hunter S. Thompson. Thompson characterized him as a heavyweight Samoan attorney, Dr. Gonzo, in his 1971 novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Acosta disappeared in 1974 during a trip in Mexico and is presumed dead.[4][5]