Have you read anything by Tom Wolfe?

I've read [i]The Bonfire of the Vanities[/i] and [i]The Right Stuff[/i].

This morning I was lying in bed, looking at my bookshelf and I noticed my couple of books by Tom Wolfe. I then thought to myself, "Tom Wolfe...is he still alive?" I checked my phone and found out that he had just died at the age of 87, and news stories about his death started showing up about 20 minutes before I suddenly thought to look him up. Bizarre.

Either way, R.I.P. to an insightful non-fiction author and novelist.

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Elandra77

THOMAS Wolfe..the classic author of many years ago? Yes. Author of "You Can't Go Home Again "and 'Look Homeward, Angel"

But I suspect you are not referring to THAT THOMAS WOLFE.

So no..

SW-User

@Elandra77 No, this would be Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr. of the latter half of the 20th century.

Both are worth reading, however :)

Elandra77

@SW-User Indeed it would be. The Kennedy was usually omitted in his name. Old timers , such as myself, just referred to him as Tom. So when Tom Wolfe came out it was confusing for a bit.

The latter part I am not so sure of. "You Can't Go Home Again" was published in 1934. About a 1/3 of the century in. I first read it in 1969. That. and Solzhenitsyn's "The First Circle" were the last I read that decade.☺