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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 intelle…
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Born 2 March 1930 · Died 14 May 2018 · Q216195
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“I hate people who go around saying they”
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“I think every living moment of a human being”
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Died 2018-05-14.
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“[A neoconservative is] a liberal who has been mugged by reality.”
Attacked political correctness, mocking it as perpetual outrage
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“has probably had a good effect because it is now bad manners to use racial epithets.”
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Zola simply could not—and was not interested in—telling a lie." In the same interview, Wolfe said that political correctness "has probably had a good effect because it is now bad manners to use racial epithets." However, in 2017, he attacked political correctness, mocking it as perpetual outrage.
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Wolfe described Donald Trump as a "lovable megalomaniac
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Wolfe published The Kingdom of Speech, a critique of the work of Charles Darwin and Noam Chomsky
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Awarded National Book Award (2010).
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Awarded Carl Sandburg Literary Award (2008).
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Claimed never to have used LSD and to have tried marijuana only once), Wolfe became one of the notable figures of the decade
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To mark the tenth anniversary of their advent, Wolfe wrote that "the universe of blogs is a universe of rumors" and that "blogs are an advance guard to the rear
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“the universe of blogs is a universe of rumors”
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Awarded Jefferson Lecture (2006).
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Bush reciprocated the admiration, and is said to have read all of Wolfe's books, according to friends in 2005.
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Because of what he called Bush's "great decisiveness and willingness to fight"
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Won National Humanities Medal (2001).
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Wolfe published an essay referring to his three main literary critics as "My Three Stooges
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Wolfe was criticised by Norman Mailer, John Updike and John Irving, after they were asked if they believed that his books were deserving of their critical acclaim
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Awarded Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award (1992).
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“Our federal government is like a train on the track... There are people on the right and people on the left, they”
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Wrote another touching remembrance of his childhood in Sherwood Park in a letter to a man who purchased the Wolfe home place
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Won Wilbur Cross Medal (1990).
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Awarded St. Louis Literary Award (1990).
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Wolfe wrote an essay for Harper's Magazine, titled "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast"
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Was met with critical acclaim and also became a commercial success
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Awarded Dos Passos Prize (1984).
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The book was adapted into an Academy Award-winning feature film
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Ceased his other work to concentrate on the novel
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Awarded National Book Award for Nonfiction for The Right Stuff (1980).
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Published the influential book The Right Stuff about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman
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Wolfe published The Right Stuff, an account of the pilots who became America's first astronauts
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PBS produced Tom Wolfe's Los Angeles, a fictional, satirical TV movie set in Los Angeles
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“The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening”
Published two essays in book form as Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
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Wolfe published a collection of his articles in this style, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, adding to his notability
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When, three months before the JFK assassination, he published an article on George Ohsawa and the sanpaku condition foretelling death
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And also won the Guild's award for humor
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While still preparing his thesis, Wolfe became a reporter for the Springfield Union in Springfield, Massachusetts
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Earned a tryout with the New York Giants, but was cut after three days, which he blamed on his inability to throw good fastballs
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Studied at St. Christopher's School (1949).
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Turned down an offer to enroll at Princeton University to attend Washington and Lee University
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In Richmond, Virginia, the son of Helen Perkins Hughes Wolfe, a garden designer, and Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Sr
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Born 1930-03-02.
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