Richard Brautigan has been played on NTS shows including Breakfast Epiphanies w/ Molly Nilsson, with Love Poem first played on 2 February 2022.

Richard Brautigan was an American writer (novelist and poet), best known for the novel Trout Fishing in America. Brautigan's work became identified with the counterculture youth movement of the late 1960s. Richard produces imaginative writing and an expressive speaking voice. Many of his spoken works are available online for download.

In 1984, at age 49, Richard Brautigan died of a self-inflicted .44-calibre gunshot wound to the head in Bolinas, California.