Tom Wolfe. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Photographs by Lawrence Schiller & Ted Streshinsky

Lawrence Schiller began his career as a photojournalist for Life , Time , and Paris Match , photographing some of the most iconic figures of the 1960s, from Marilyn Monroe to Barbra Streisand , from Ali and Patterson to Redford and Newman. His book projects include five New York Times best sellers, Marilyn & Me , Barbra , and the Pulitzer Prize–winning book, The Executioner’s Song , by Norman Mailer. He has directed or produced 20 motion pictures, including the documentaries The American Dreamer and the Oscar–winning The Man Who Skied Down Everest . Among his films for television, The Executioner’s Song and Peter the Great won five Emmys.

Ted Streshinsky (1923–2003) was a photojournalist best known for his coverage of the social and political turmoil of the 1960s and ’70s in California, from migrant worker strikes to antiwar protests. His wide-ranging portrayal of the counterculture in San Francisco included the hippies, and Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters on the high-voltage night of the Acid Test Graduation.

Tom Wolfe (1931–2018) is the author of a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Bonfire of the Vanities , The Right Stuff , and I Am Charlotte Simmons .