Tom Wolfe at the Strand

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr., was born in 1930 in Richmond, Virginia, raised in an upper-middle-class family that encouraged his intellectual inclinations. After college at Washington and Lee, he completed a PhD in American Studies at Yale, where like many Southerners before him at Ivy League universities in New England, he felt somewhat at odds with the institutional culture—politically and aesthetically.

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