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Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr., was born in Richmond, Virginia, on March 2, 1931, the son of Thomas Kennerly and Helen (Hughes) Wolfe. He graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1951 and earned a doctorate in American studies at Yale University in 1957. Wolfe married Sheila Berger (the art director of Harper's magazine) in 1978. They have two children: Alexandra and Thomas.

As a journalist, Wolfe made numerous important contributions to American letters. He started in the business at ...

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Tom Wolfe Essays

The Bonfire of the Vanities

The world that we live in is governed by a certain reality: when events take place, the fact that they happened becomes an absolute truth. Human beings, however, have the freedom to skew that truth by lying. Why, and under what conditions, would...