Brian Sydney Barritt (1934–2011) was an English author, artist, and counterculture figure.
He served in the British army, and was a friend and collaborator to such notables as Timothy Leary, William Burroughs, and Alex Trocchi.
Barritt was the author of several books, including Whisper,[1] The Road of Excess: A Psychedelic Autobiography[2] and The Nabob of Bombasta.
Leary had seen parts of the book before which had been handed to him whilst he was a prisoner at San Luis Obispo, USA.
[6] Their relationship deteriorated by the early 1980s with Leary describing Barritt as a 'lying junky' in his 1983 autobiography, Flashbacks.