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Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities demonstrate the ease with which Wolfe navigated nonfiction and fiction..

Tom Wolfe

American author
Also known as: Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr.
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Tom Wolfe (born March 2, 1930, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.—died May 14, 2018, New York, New York) was an American novelist, journalist, and social commentator who was a leading critic of contemporary life and a proponent of New Journalism (the application of fiction-writing techniques to journalism). After studying at Washington and Lee University (B.A., 1951), Wolfe, a talented baseball pitcher, tried out with the New York Giants but did not make the team. He then attended...

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