Tom Wolfe
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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe (born March 2, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia), known as Tom Wolfe, is a best-selling American author and journalist. Releases of his fiction or non-fiction books are often major media events. He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s, author of the cult classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and the essay Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.
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