Author: Richard Horn
Born: 18 December 1942
Died: August 1973
Bio: "Richard Horn was born on December 18, 1942, in New York City, the only child of Howard Horn, a proprietor in the textile industry (according to the 1950 U.S. Census), and Evelyn Horn, a Russian immigrant and former shopgirl in a midwestern department store who eventually rose to become vice president of the chain. Horn was a Class A chess player and an avid follower of sports, particularly boxing and baseball. In 1967, while living in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, he organized a baseball team consisting of American expatriates like himself and Mexican locals.

With the advance he received from Grove Press for Encyclopedia, he traveled to India in 1968 and stayed for nearly five years. While there, he plunged into the study of Ayurveda, the traditional Hindu system of medicine based on diet, herbal treatment, and yogic breathing. During this period, while working on his second novel, he also wrote a number of travel essays which were published in The East Village Other, a popular New York City underground newspaper in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Horn returned to New York City in early 1973 and died in August of that year, a few months shy of his thirty-first birthday. The cause of death, reported by the city coroner, was “suffocation pending investigation.” According to a couple of sources close to Horn, to the best of their knowledge, no investigation was ever conducted."

Source: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1860098210/reviving-a-unique-neglected-1960s-american-novel (the publisher tracked down Horn's daughter)