Background
Cardoso was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Cardoso was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and raised in Somerville, Massachusetts.
He studied journalism at Boston University and in 1967 he joined the Boston Globe and shortly thereafter became editor of the Globe Sunday magazine.
He was the youngest of three brothers and had one daughter, Linda Cardoso. He eventually settled in California. While not as well known as his literary friends, he wrote for many publications in the 1960s and 1970s such as Crawdaddy!, Harper"s Weekly, New Times, Ramparts, and Rolling Stone.
His work was collected in a 1984 volume called The Maltese Sangweech and Other Heroes.
He also fondly shared his memories of Hunter South. Thompson with East. Jean Carroll for her 1993 biography, Hunter. Cardoso died of heart failure in the early morning of February 26, 2006, at his home in Kelseyville, California, aged 68.