Paul Krassner
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American writer and satirist
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Communications
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#267
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Journalism
#159
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#179
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#117
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Paul Krassner was an American writer and satirist. He was the founder, editor, and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958. Krassner became a key figure in the counterculture of the 1960s as a member of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and a founding member of the Yippies, a term he is credited with coining.