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Also Known As	Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr.
Born	March 2, 1930 • Richmond • Virginia
Died	May 14, 2018 (aged 88) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors	National Book Award
Notable Works	“A Man in Full” • “Back to Blood” • “From Bauhaus to Our House” • “Hooking Up” • “I Am Charlotte Simmons” • “My Three Stooges” • “Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers” • “The Bonfire of the Vanities” • “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” • “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby” • “The Kingdom of Speech” • “The Painted Word” • “The Right Stuff”
Movement / Style	New Journalism