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Born in 1931 in Richmond Virginia, Tom Wolfe had
dreams of playing baseball professionally. While he
came closer than most with the same aspiration, he
had to settle for writing. He earned an education
at Washington and Lee, and attended graduate school
at Yale University. His doctoral thesis studied
Communist Organizational Activity among American
Writers, 1929-1942.
Wolfe took his first newspaper job in 1956 and soon worked for the
Washington
Post,
and the New York Herald Tribune. While there he
experimented with fictional techniques in feature
stories. He is credited with being the inventor of
New Journalism. That is, he wrote feature articles
ignoring all conventional journalistic rules,
instead, simply writing the story the way he wanted. He used italics, free association literary
techniques, even exclamation points!
His career
advanced further in the mid-60’s with the
publication of
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. In
1979, he published
The Right Stuff, which won his
the American Book Award for Non Fiction, and in the
eights became a household name with the Bonfire of
the Vanities. He was paid extremely well for the
rights to the
movie.
He
continues to write novels, among his most recent
novels, the highly successful,
A Man in Full and
his latest work release,
I am Charlotte Simmons.
Tom Wolfe lives in New York City.
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