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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018) 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.

Wolfe began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, achieving national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (a highly experimental account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and two collections of articles and essays, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. In 1979, he 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.

His first fiction novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim and also became a commercial success. It was adapted as a major motion picture of the same name directed by Brian De Palma.

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  • "The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!" Esquire, March 1965.
  • "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead!" New York Herald-Tribune supplement (April 11, 1965).
  • "Lost in the Whichy Thicket," New York Herald-Tribune supplement (April 18, 1965).
  • "The Birth of the New Journalism: Eyewitness Report by Tom Wolfe." New York, February 14, 1972.
  • "The New Journalism: A la Recherche des Whichy Thickets." New York Magazine, February 21, 1972.
  • "Why They Aren't Writing the Great American Novel Anymore." Esquire, December 1972.
  • "The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening" New York, August 23, 1976.
  • "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast", Harper's. November 1989.
  • "Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died." Forbes 1996.
  • "Pell Mell." The Atlantic Monthly (November 2007).
  • "The Rich Have Feelings, Too." Vanity Fair (September 2009).

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