Tom Wolfe

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American author and journalist (1930-2018)

United States WritersLived 1930 to 2018 · aged 88

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The Mercury Seven astronauts were the subject of The Right Stuff.

Wolfe at the White House, 2004

Awards 9

2010National Book Award

2008Carl Sandburg Literary Award

2006Jefferson Lecture

2001National Humanities Medal

1992Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award

1990St. Louis Literary Award

1990Wilbur Cross Medal

1984Dos Passos Prize

1980National Book Award for Nonfiction

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ChildAlexandra Wolfe

Connected to Tom 6

Orson BeanAlso won Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award

Bernard LewisAlso won Jefferson Lecture

David MametAlso won Carl Sandburg Literary Award

M. GessenAlso won National Book Award for Nonfiction

Mortimer J. AdlerAlso won St. Louis Literary Award

Colson WhiteheadAlso won Dos Passos Prize

About this person

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City.

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