Karl Hess was born on 25 May 1923 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was married to Therese. He died on 22 April 1994 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Libertarian intellectual who was an editor of Newsweek in his 20s, and later became a Republican speechwriter in the 1950s and '60s. He was simultaneously Barry Goldwater's principal writer and a member of Students for a Democratic Society. He later became an advocate of alternative technologies and energy resources.