Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , The Right Stuff , and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers , as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities , A Man in Full , and I Am Charlotte Simmons . As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post , the New York Herald Tribune , Esquire , and New York magazine, and is credited with coining the term "the Me Decade." Among his many honors, Wolfe was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University, graduating cum laude, and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale.
He lived in New York City. David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times and a contributor to The Atlantic . He is a commentator on "The PBS Newshour" and founder and Chair of Weave: The Social Fabric Project. His forthcoming book "How To Know A Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen" will be published in October. His previous three books were "The Second Mountain," "The Road to Character," and "The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement," all #1 New York Times bestsellers. Mr. Brooks has taught at Yale and Duke and now teaches at the University of Chicago. He has received over 30 honorary degrees from American universities and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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