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Tom Wolfe


Born
in Richmond, Virginia, The United States
March 02, 1931

Died
May 14, 2018

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Wolfe was educated at Washington and Lee Universities and also at Yale, where he received a PhD in American studies.

Tom Wolfe spent his early days as a Washington Post beat reporter, where his free-association, onomatopoetic style would later become the trademark of New Journalism. In books such as The Electric Koolaid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe delves into the inner workings of the mind, writing about the unconscious decisions people make in their lives. His attention to eccentricities of human behavior and language and to questions of social status are considered unparalleled in the American literary canon.


He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

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“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
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“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
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“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”
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