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| | Tom Wolfe: Bio |
 | | The book became a bestseller and established Wolfe as a leading figure in the literary experiments in nonfiction that became known as New Journalism. | | | An account of a network television magazine show's attempt to trap three soldiers at Fort Bragg into confessing to the murder of one of their comrades, it grew out of what had been intended as one theme in a novel Wolfe was working on at that time. | | | While still a daily reporter for the Herald-Tribune, he completed his first book, a collection of articles about the flamboyant Sixties written for New York and Esquire and published in 1965 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux as The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. |
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http://www.tomwolfe.com/bio.html
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| | Tom Wolfe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This project took him more than eleven years to complete; A Man in Full was published finally in 1998. | | | This book chronicles the spectacular decline and fall of a New York bond trader named Sherman McCoy against a backdrop of 1980s New York. | | | An enormous initial printing of 1.2 million copies was announced and the book stayed at number one on the New York Times bestseller list for ten weeks. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wolfe
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| | Interview with Tom Wolfe |
| | Wolfe is the author of 11 books, including "The Right Stuff," "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," "From Bauhaus to Our House" and "The Bonfire of the Vanities." His newest novel, which he is completing, was tentatively titled "The Mayflies," but Wolfe says "those flies kept making me itch," so he's working on a new title. | | | In his speech, titled "The End of the Century and the Spirit of the Age," Wolfe will examine the social and moral climate of the last decade and the legacy it has left for the 1990s. | | | It's amazing when you think of the superstructure of contemporary science that would be undone if that theory were discredited. |
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http://brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/v20/v20n24/wolfe.html
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| | Commentary Magazine - The New Journalism, by Tom Wolfe |
| | ...IN TURNING from Wolfe's essay to the selections in his anthology, the great temptation is to judge them merely in terms of the extent to which they are or aren't embarrassed by his claims for them... | | | ...According to Wolfe, it is the element of the factual in the New Journalism that removes all "screens" between literature and its audience and puts "the writer one step closer to the absolute involvement of the reader that Henry James and James Joyce dreamed of and never achieved... | | | ...and more to the dynamics of the contemporary literary scene than the ways in which Tom Wolfe has or has not surpassed Balzac, who in turn had or had not surpassed Shakespeare... |
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V56I4P86-1.htm
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| | Wolfe's account of the "Kandy" memorandum appears in the book's introduction (xiii-xiv) and is confirmed by Hayes (1972, 12). | | | To be sure, a shy, inhibited narrator would not have championed exclamation points, italics, and ellipses; invented punctuation and sometimes used none at all; creatively experimented with typography and type fonts; written long, fact-stuffed sentences that celebrated the adjective and the adverb; and relished colloquial metaphor, contemporary slang, and the oral style in general. | | | In 1987, years after having announced the literary supremacy of New Journalism in light of contemporary fiction's then abandonment of social realism, Wolfe authored his first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, an irony somewhat muted inasmuch as saturation reporting underscored the work. |
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http://www.english.upenn.edu/~despey/wolfe.htm
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| | The Village Voice: VLS: The White Stuff |
| | Just as in The Bonfire of the Vanities, then, the central conflict Wolfe treats in A Man in Full, the human drama that most invigorates his powers (and the personal demon he may have tried to slay by writing this juiced-up book) is that of a rich man in peril of losing everything. | | | Tom Wolfe's new novel, A Man in Full, arrives like its author all dressed up in the tailored white suit of a National Book Award nomination. | | | The penman's envy of the man of action is evident in everything Wolfe writes about Croker. |
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http://www.villagevoice.com/vls/159/eugenides.shtml
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| | Blogcritics.org: Dumpster Bust Exclusive: Interview with Tom Wolfe |
| | For those of you who may not be familiar with his work, Tom Wolfe has written such classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full. | | | Wolfe's words have lost *none* of their force. | | | His novels are just too long and filled with mere archetypes instead of characters you could actually picture living and breathing. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2004/12/13/211721.php
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| | Amazon.co.uk: I Am Charlotte Simmons: Books |
| | Tom Wolfe is the author of more than a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full. | | | But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that Dupont is closer in spirit to Sodom than to Athens, and that sex, crank, and kegs trump academic achievement every time. | | | This is a book of a first time author, an excellent first time author, no doubt, but Tom Wolfe? |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0224074865
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| | Technorati Tag: tom_wolfe |
| | I read Tom Wolfe's essay, "The Three Stooges" last night, which you can find in his book, Hooking Up. | | | Reuters reports that Tina Brown is leaving CNBC to work on her new book about Princess Diana. | | | [Originally posted: June 15, 2005 @ 3:16 a.m.] I read Tom Wolfe’s essay, “The Three Stooges” last night, which you can find in his book, Hooking Up... |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/tom_wolfe
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| | BrothersJudd.com - Review of Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word |
| | I say that we have all always intuited that this is true, but it was left to Tom Wolfe, naturally, to declare for one and all that the emperor had no clothes. | | | It is not necessary to read these two books together, but they really do compliment one another and it is when taken together that they make the most powerful case. | | | -ESSAY: Don Dapper: Tom Wolfe conquers windmills on Brown's battlefield (Amanda Griscom) |
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http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/709
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| | Salon Books John Irving blasts Tom Wolfe, Wolfe blasts back |
| | When asked if his dislike for Wolfe's writing springs from its popularity (Wolfe's last novel, "A Man in Full," was a bestseller and Irving compared Wolfe to legal thriller writer John Grisham), the "World According to Garp" author retorted: "I'm not using that argument against him. | | | In his review for the New Yorker, John Updike slighted Wolfe's tale about the decline of an Atlanta real-estate magnate, describing it as "entertainment, not literature, even literature in a modest aspirant form." | | | All three have seen the handwriting on the wall, and it reads: 'A Man in Full.'" |
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http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/12/21/wolfe
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| | Tom Wolfe - Author Biography |
| | Wolfe's novel The Bonfire of the Vanities was published by FSG in 1987, and went on to become one of the top ten bestselling books of the decade. | | | From Bauhaus to Our House, his distinctive look at contemporary architecture, was published in the fall of 1981 and became another national bestseller; in 1982, FSG published The Purple Decades: A Reader. | | | On November 6,1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published a new novel by Tom Wolfe entitled A Man in Full. |
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http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=319
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| | The LLama Butchers: Happy Birthday, Tom Wolfe! |
| | Wolfe is a sort of present day Dickens, isn't he, without all the poetical doodahs. | | | There's an AWESOME book about the disastrous making of Bonfire of the Vanities - it's called The Devil's Candy, and it's become a classic in books about film. | | | Wolfe, being a W&L Man, spoke at my law school commencement. |
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http://llamabutchers.mu.nu/archives/069736.php
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| | Alibris: Tom Wolfe |
| | From bestselling author Tom Wolfe comes a stunning novella set in the high stakes world of television journalism. | | | Kowalski offers vignettes from the lives of creatures that illustrate the qualities he considers spiritual: playfulness, capacity for love, altruism, and awareness of death. | | | This seminal work of the New Journalism, a style which explored the writer's own experience of the journey rather than merely reporting the bare facts, was written in a mind-bending... |
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http://www.alibris.com/search/books/author/Wolfe,Tom
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books News Wolfe scoops Bad Sex award |
| | The annual prize is awarded to the worst description of sex in a contemporary novel. | | | Wolfe triumphed with the following - edited - passage: | | | Wolfe's third novel is set in an imaginary elite Ivy League university and is seen through the eyes of his eponymous heroine - a shy, virginal country girl who is initially shocked by the decadence and excess she encounters. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1373442,00.html
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| | PAL: Tom Wolfe (1931- ) |
| | Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century, 1945 to the Present - Tom Wolfe." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. | | | The devil's candy: The Bonfire of the vanities goes to Hollywood. | | | Chapter 10: Late Twentieth Century - Tom Wolfe (1931-) |
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http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/wolfe_tom.html
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| | Famous Quote by Tom Wolfe |
| | The famous and inspirational quotation by Tom Wolfe detailed above is well known as an example of the famed verbal and spoken communication, citation or quotation used by the famous person. | | | This Famous Online Quotation site, with examples of Tom Wolfe famous quotes provide a vast selection of examples of categories of quotation which include a well known funny quote or quotation, a motivational quote, a love quote, an inspirational quote, a cute quote, a persuasive quotation, a movie quote, a political quote and sad quotes. | | | Some of the quotes of Tom Wolfe will be familiar and some even deemed to be legendary and sometimes notorious quotes and quotations. |
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http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/wolfe_tom
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| | Hooking Up by Tom Wolfe - read excerpt |
| | Tom Wolfe is the author of more than a dozen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and A Man in Full. | | | -- as Tom Wolfe has discovered from a survey of girls' Filofax diaries, to cite but one of Hooking Up's displays of his famed reporting prowess. | | | Printed here in its entirety is Ambush at Fort Bragg, a novella about sting TV which has prefigured with eerie accuracy three cases of scandal and betrayal that have lately exploded in the press, as well as Wolfe's forecasts ("My Three Stooges," "The Invisible Artist") of radical changes about to sweep the arts. |
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http://mostlyfiction.com/excerpts/hookingup.htm
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| | Guardian Unlimited US elections 2004 'The liberal elite hasn't got a clue' |
| | This may turn out to be the last book ever written that way." | | | Wolfe set out, for the first time, to write the book on a computer, but gave up in favour of his usual typewriter. | | | Shelves are stacked with books on 19th-century, modern and Dutch art. |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1340525,00.html
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| | Tom Wolfe: Contest |
| | Tom Wolfe, the author of such classics as Bonfire of the Vanities and The Right Stuff, has reached new heights with his latest book, I Am Charlotte Simmons. | | | Although the man in white won't personally be there (sorry, you won't be seeing Tom in his swimsuit), all expenses will be paid for a week you'll never forget. | | | In honor of the release of the paperback edition of I Am Charlotte Simmons, Tom Wolfe's publisher Picador wants to send you and a friend on a Spring Break adventure to Cancun! |
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http://drillteammedia.com/tomwolfe/contest.html
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| | Tom Wolfe |
| | In addition to teaching, he has written many books - more than 35 at last count. | | | Tom sells his original work, as well as cast models and a series of cast characters he created for finer gift stores. | | | His books have been well received from the newest learner to the most seasoned veteran, because of the simple methods and obvious enjoyment Tom brings to his art. |
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http://www.cca-carvers.org/wolfe.html
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| | TCS Daily - Updating Tom Wolfe |
| | Few sins in writing are more egregious than attempting to mimic the inimitable. | | | David Brooks wrote Bobos in Paradise as if he were completely unaware that Wolfe had already zeroed in on the phenomenon and given it a more descriptive name: radical chic. | | | 's analysis of The Substance of Style was anticipated by Wolfe's first book of essays, from which the quotation above was taken. |
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http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=010504B
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| | Tom Wolfe |
| | Hesse describing in 1932 what the Pranksters will do in 1964—quote: "It was like the man had been on acid himself and was on the bus." (Wolfe, Electric, 128). | | | There is no indulging into theories and philosophies. | | | The sound went down so many microphones and hooked through so many mixers and variable lags and blew up in so many amplifiers and roiled around in so many speakers and fed back down so many microphones, it came on like a chemical refinery." (Wolfe, Electric, 223) |
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http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/tom_wolfe.htm
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| | Tom Wolfe |
| | I love Tom Wolfe's ambition and his sense of humour. | | | This scene is a high-powered and hilarious set-piece which only Tom Wolfe could have written. | | | Wolfe made sure you understood the milieu inhabited by his New York characters with sentences like: |
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http://www.anr.uk.com/fb22/wolfe.html
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| | Steve Hammer Interview Tom Wolfe (1995) |
| | Wolfe gave an exclusive phone interview to NUVO's Steve Hammer, in which he discussed the birth of the New Journalism, his first meeting with Hunter S. Thompson and his love for architecture. | | | Whether you know him as the Father of New Journalism, the author of The Right Stuff or the man who gave the world The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe is certainly one of America's greatest living writers. | | | In an exclusive NUVO interview, the Father of New Journalism discusses his career |
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http://www.nuvo.net/hammer/int/wolfe.html
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| | Wolfetracks.com ... The World of Tim Wolfe Sculpture |
| | Tim Wolfe's love of nature has been an inspiration for his artworks from a very early age. | | | Tim Wolfe and his staff members all share a love of Nature and the outdoors. | | | Tim Wolfe is excited to announce the addition of a brand new line of beautiful accent table lamps. |
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http://www.wolfetracks.com
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| | Jazz |
| | Wolfe explains: “My music is based in the jazz tradition, but with all the other influences of my life mixed in. | | | Wolfe has performed and recorded recently with Ken and Harry Watters, "Brothers III," on Summit Records. | | | An important component of the program is to talk with the students about the 'life of a musician.' Says Wolfe, "Music is a part of everyone's life, whether we experience it on the radio, church, or school, in some way or another it is a daily component in our existence. |
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http://bama.ua.edu/~twolfe/wolfebio.htm
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| | NPR : Tom Wolfe Goes to College with 'Charlotte Simmons' |
| | Dupont!" while others, especially men, would tense up and fight to keep their faces from revealing how impressed they were and say, "I see" or "Uhmm" or nothing at all. | | | Wolfe traveled to universities across the country to research contemporary campus life for I Am Charlotte Simmons, which depicts college as a hedonistic playground of non-stop drinking and rampant casual sex. | | | That includes rich, bigoted frat boys, skinny sorority girls, leftwing campus intellectuals and members of the university's national championship basketball team. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4163364
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| | OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts |
| | Wolfe's latest book is "I Am Charlotte Simmons" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). | | | In the 20th century it was Hunter Thompson, whom I would nominate as the century's greatest comic writer in the English language. | | | RESPOND TO THIS ARTICLE READ RESPONSES E-MAIL THIS TO A FRIEND PRINT FRIENDLY FORMAT |
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http://www.opinionjournal.com/la?id=110006325
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| | Tom Wolfe - 2005 National Book Festival (Library of Congress) |
| | He has written articles — many of which became books — for publications such as New York, Esquire, Harper’s and Rolling Stone. | | | Tom Wolfe began his writing career as general assignment reporter in Springfield, Massachusetts, followed by jobs with The Washington Post, and later the Herald Tribune in New York. | | | Tom Wolfe - 2005 National Book Festival (Library of Congress) |
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http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/wolfe.html
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| | AllRefer.com - Tom Wolfe (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | Richmond, Va. Wolfe first gained fame for his studies of contemporary American culture in a style known as New Journalism, which combined personal impressions and opinions, reconstructed dialogue, slang, and academic jargon. | | | You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > American Literature, Biographies > Tom Wolfe | | | AllRefer.com - Tom Wolfe (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/W/Wolfe-To.html
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| | Tom Wolfe resources |
| | Wolfe's field work for the book has included interviewing Stanford students and attending a fraternity party at the University of Michigan. | | | 1931: born Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, March 2 in Richmond, Virginia (father a gentleman farmer) | | | Content may be copied under Open Web Content License. |
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http://www.robotwisdom.com/jorn/wolfe.html
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| | Paintings By Wolfe - Oil Paintings, Frames, Landscapes |
| | All of our reasonably priced paintings come with professional frames. | | | This site contains a gallery of oil and acrylic paintings by artists Tom Wolfe and Surena Wolfe (Sue), two fine artists specializing in paintings inspired by local landscape scenery and commissioned paintings. | | | Note that Paintings By Wolfe provides our own professional framing service for oil and acrylic paintings only. |
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http://www.paintingsbywolfe.com
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| | Tom Wolfe :: pixelfunhouse.com |
| | Drop me a line and tell me what you think. | | | © Tom Wolfe (Canadian) - 2002 - All rights reserved. |
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http://www3.sympatico.ca/twolfe
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| | The Painted Word Tom Wolfe |
| | With what sniggers, laughter, and good-humored amazement they will look back upon the era of the Painted Word! | | | Note: The foreword and epilogue posted above are copyright © 1975 by Tom Wolfe. |
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http://www.billemory.com/NOTES/wolfe.html
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| | Tom Wolfe (I) |
| | Find where Tom Wolfe is credited alongside another name | | | You may report errors and omissions on this page to the IMDb database managers. | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Tom Wolfe (I) |
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004366
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| | The South Bank Show: Tom Wolfe - TV.com |
| | Tell the world what you think of Tom Wolfe. | | | The South Bank Show: Tom Wolfe - TV.com |
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http://www.tv.com/south-bank-show/tom-wolfe/episode/259079/summary.html
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