Ludlow died at age 34, having tried on the roles of teenage dope fiend, author, explorer, lawyer, libertine, and physician. He rode through Yosemite with Albert Bierstadt, danced in Salt Lake City with Brigham Young, and wrote in San Francisco with Mark Twain. This biography, by Dave Gross, exists only in this hypertext.
The Ludlow family letters reveal a great deal about the life, activities, and character of Fitz Hugh Ludlow.
This essay, by Oriana Josseau Kalant, from The International Journal of the Addictions, June 1971, examines Ludlow's The Hasheesh Eater from the perspective of modern medical knowledge about the effects of cannabis.
This essay, by Louis J. Bragman, from the Medical Journal and Record of 1925, discusses Ludlow's writings on opiate addiction.
This is the entry on Ludlow from Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography (1888).
By Ludlow biographer Dionysius Doultsinos.
A book written by Mary Armstrong and by Fitz Hugh's sister Helen Ludlow, and published in 1874.
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| Pioneer of Inner Space: The Life of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Hasheesh Eater by Dionysius Doultsinos |