He went on to facilitate the first meeting between the Grateful Dead and the Leary organization (who recognized each other as kindred souls in spite of their differing philosophical approaches) in June 1967.
These transformative experiences led him to distance himself from Mormonism. Weir and Barlow maintained a close friendship through the years.Īs a frequent visitor during college to Timothy Leary's facility in Millbrook, New York, Barlow was introduced to LSD he later claimed to have consumed the substance over 1,000 times. There he met Bob Weir, who later co-founded the Grateful Dead. During this period, he also "lived beside Needle Park on New York's Upper West Side and dealt cocaine in Spanish Harlem." Career Grateful Dead Īt age 15, Barlow became a student at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Barlow eventually finished the novel, but it was rejected by several publishers (including Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and remains unpublished. Initially supported by a $5,000 or $1,000 advance from the publisher, he decided to eschew these options in favor of spending the next two years traveling around the world, including a nine-month sojourn in India, a riotous winter in a summer cottage on Long Island Sound in Connecticut, and a screenwriting foray in Los Angeles. Īs he neared graduation, Barlow was admitted to Harvard Law School and contracted to write a novel by Farrar, Straus and Giroux at the behest of his mentor, the autodidactic Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and historian Paul Horgan. In his senior year, he became a part-time resident of New York City's East Village and immersed himself in Andy Warhol's Factory demimonde, cultivating a friendship with Rene Ricard and developing a brief addiction to heroin. After two weeks of rehabilitation, he returned to his studies. He claimed to have served as Wesleyan's student body president until the administration "tossed him into a sanitarium" following a drug-induced attempted suicide attack in Boston, Massachusetts. simply because he was from Wyoming, where few applications originated." In 1969, he graduated with high honors in comparative religion from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Īlthough Barlow's academic record was erratic throughout his secondary education, he "had his pick of top eastern universities. Raised as a devout Mormon, he was prohibited from watching television until the sixth grade, when his parents allowed him to "absorb televangelists".
He grew up on Bar Cross Ranch near Pinedale, Wyoming, a 22,000-acre (8,900 ha) property his great-uncle founded in 1907, and attended elementary school in a one-room schoolhouse. īarlow's paternal ancestors were Mormon pioneers. Barlow was born near Cora, Wyoming, as the only child of Norman Walker Barlow (1905–1972), a Republican state legislator, and his wife, Miriam "Mim" Adeline Barlow Bailey (née Jenkins 1905–1999), who married in 1929.
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