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[pic source], another pic, caricature, pix, autograph[Up: Favorite authors] [Robot Wisdom home page]
[pic source], another pic, caricature, pix, autograph
New: 11Sept essay
New: Wolfe reads Hooking Up (MP3 and RealAud); extract; 1st chapter; NYT Sunday review; Salon review; SJMerc (extract); Charlotte; Miami; Telegraph; ThisIsLondon; KC, UK Telegraph, UK Times; NYRB
New: postmodern art uses 'Acid Test' text
New: NYTimes hatchetjob on Hooking Up [mirror]
New: 'In the Land of the Rococo Marxists' [about]
New: info on Hooking Up
NEW: MP3 and RealAudio of Ambush at Ft Bragg
NEW: spat with Updike/Mailer/Irving
NEW: opposes Internet in schools [ditto]
NEW: short interview
1931: born Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, March 2 in Richmond, Virginia (father a gentleman farmer)
c1940: tried to write a biography of Napoleon, and a comic book of Mozart's life
1940s: St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia
c1948: imitating Hemingway's style (later JG Farrell, James Jones, Norman Mailer, Maxim Gorky, Boris Pilnyak)
c1953? graduated from Washington and Lee University (baseball pitcher, editor of Shenandoah Review)
1957: PhD in American Studies from Yale
1957: reporter for Springfield (Massachusetts) Union
1959: Washington Post's Latin American correspondent
1962: New York Herald Tribune; white-suit trademark
1963: hurried notes for Esquire piece on customised cars inspire stylistic innovation
1965: one-man exhibition of his sketches
1972: essay on New Journalism [summary], blurb
1974: another one-man exhibition of his sketches
1978: married Sheila Berger (daughter Alexandra b1980 now at Duke, son Tommy b1985)
1979: American Book Award for The Right Stuff
1983: Esquire article on Robert Noyce [excerpt]
1988: Harper's essay "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast" 'blasts American novelists for not writing big books on the big subjects like Zola, Thackeray and Dickens' [cite]
1989: Talk at Michigan State [RealAudio sample]
1989: predicts spiritual awakening in 1990s
1990s: living off Tiger Management investment? [passim]
1995: Talk at Yale [report]
1995: Interview
1996: interview
1996: bogus newsgroup May; heart attack, August {coincidence?!?]
1996: Forbes piece
1997: Jan-March spell of depression
1997: talk in Seattle report
1998: quotes on economy
1999: Forbes piece on sociobiology and the Net
1999: Article in Tatler on the state of things [blurb]
1999: bashed by John Irving [report]
Now: lives in 12-room apartment on 14th floor on Manhattan's Upper East Side, writes with manual Underwood typewriter
Lecture fees up to $20k
Sources:
UK Times profile, Time profile, SFGate profile, encyc entry, official bio, fanpage, GeorgeJr bio
Excerpt on the Beatles
Prankster links, academic Kesey page, Kool-Aid FAQ
Movie version 1983 by Philip Kaufman (four Oscars but lost Best Picture to Terms of Endearment): IMDB page. Movie fanpage w/soundclips and pix, ditto
Top 100 works of journalism, of 20thC nonfiction, ditto
Movie version 1990 by Brian de Palma: IMDB page
Got $750,000 for movie rights
?: $7.5 million advance
1987: begun
1989: Georgia plantation tour
1995: setting changed from NYC to Atlanta
1996: heart attack
prologue, chapter two, horse-breeding scene, RealAudio reading by an actor, MP3 ditto
Interview, PBS interview w/RealAudio, another w/RealAudio, another w/RealAudio
Time cover story includes long plot summary; UK Times profile, SF Examiner profile
Long Norman Mailer review in NYRB. Subsequent brouhaha, ditto
Serialized in Rolling Stone
Summary (bottom of page) of Updike's slam
Reviews: Mailer, Bookends, Conservative News, Tea Room, Newsweek by George Will, another Newsweek, Denver, Duluth, fb22, January, Louisville, S Africa, Mindjack, Entertainment Weekly, ditto, Nat'l Review, Commonweal, USA Today, Village Voice, Slate, Salon, various blurbs
...a novel about contemporary American education. "The topic sounds dull, but I think there are plenty of madcap escapades going on in that field that might be fun to write about." [source]
Doing research at Stanford, ditto
Update: http://news.excite.com:80/news/uw/991122/university-education-79
"Universities have replaced the church as the place where values are established and created," he said. Wolfe's field work for the book has included interviewing Stanford students and attending a fraternity party at the University of Michigan.
And:
...a nonfiction book about social status. "Vance Packard covered this topic in The Status Seekers, which I thought was a terrific book. But maybe it's time to take another look... We like to consider ourselves free spirits, but here is my Theory of Everything: we're all motivated, and I certainly include myself here, far more than we want to admit, by group expectations. How other people view us has an important effect on how we view ourselves..." [source]
Long excerpt from The Me Decade
Amazon page for book of Rolling Stone photos
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