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Wolfe, Tom, 1931-2018.
Birth name: Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr..
American author and journalist born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, prominantly associated
with the New Journalism movement. While characteristically satirical in his writings, he is also
capable of such straightforward historical works as The Right Stuff (1979), which won the National
Book Award for Nonfiction. Recipient of numerous major literary awards, though the stand-out may be the
"Bad Sex in Fiction Award" from the Literary Review for his novel I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004).
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Bonfire of the Vanities. 1987.
Bond trader Sherman McCoy's comfortable life disintegrates after he and his mistress are involved in a
hit-an-run car accident crippling Henry Lamb, a poor black man. Targeted by tabloid journalist Peter Fallow,
Harlem preacher Reginald Bacon, and D.A. Abe Weiss, McCoy's case devolves into a media circus in which everyone's
reputation suffers and the victim Lamb is all but forgotten. Adapted to film in 1990 and opera in 2015. Caution:
the film version was a critical and commercial bomb.
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Apr. 5, 2018,
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