Chester Anderson

Chester Anderson (1932-1991) was an American novelist, poet, and countercultural editor active in the Beat and hippie movements. Based in Greenwich Village and San Francisco's North Beach, he edited literary magazines including Beatitude, and during the 1967 Summer of Love he co-founded the Communications Company with Claude Hayward, producing broadsides for the anarchist theater group the Diggers in Haight-Ashbury. He is best known for the novel The Butterfly Kid (1967), the first installment of his loosely linked Greenwich Village Trilogy, which blends science fiction with satirical countercultural comedy and earned a nomination for the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Novel. He also co-wrote Ten Years to Doomsday (1964) with Michael Kurland and later published the novel Fox & Hare (1980).