Mason Hoffenberg

Mason Kass Hoffenberg (December 1922 – 1 June 1986) was an American writer best known for having written the satiric novel Candy in collaboration with Terry Southern.

He was stationed in England and later in Belgium, France and Germany as part of the post-war Allied occupation army.

[2] He became part of the Village literary scene of the 1950s, where he knew Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.

[3] Working for Agence France Presse, he became friends with other American expatriates, including William S. Burroughs.

He also was one of the writers who wrote "dirty books" for the Olympia Press, which brought him into collaboration with Southern.

Living in Swinging London in the 1960s, he befriended Marianne Faithfull, Mick Jagger and Yoko Ono.

He died of lung cancer at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City on 1 June 1986.