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■ March Interview: TOM WOLFE, author, New York City


Still going strong at 87


Richmond native continues to pursue American cultural trends by Martha Steger


T


he author of several best-sellers since 1979 — “The Right Stuff,” “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and “A Man in Full”


— Richmond native Tom Wolfe is researching his next book. It will focus on the medical profession, although he isn’t sure whether it will be fiction or nonfiction. Not one to rest on laurels from his beloved Virginia (the Library of Virginia’s 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award) — or financially rewarding Hollywood films made from his books — Thomas Kennerly Wolfe at 87 continues to pursue American cultural trends. He owes his success to breaking


the conventions of traditional reporting while remaining true to reality — and being an astute observer and chronicler of American culture. Those observations included his


childhood passion for baseball. He was a star player for St. Christopher’s School, an Episcopal boys school in Richmond, and had a 1952 tryout with the New York Giants. The late Wilbur Bailey, Wolfe’s English teacher at St. Christopher’s, once said Wolfe’s very lengthy beginning to a sentence describing a baseball as “a spheroid” was an early clue to his future as a writer. Wolfe went on to earn a bachelor’s


Tom Wolfe says the internet has changed writing of all types, putting a premium on brevity instead of style.


degree from Washington and Lee University and a doctorate in American studies at Yale. His journalism career began in 1959 as a city reporter for The Washington Post; within three years, he moved on to the New York Herald Tribune. In 1962, when he was writing for


22 APRIL 2018 AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews


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