Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr.
Born this day in 1931
Being a writer requires two people:
the person writing and the person reading;
or the person speaking and the person listening.
One night in the 1990's I met Tom Wolfe who had
come to speak at Chapman University. It was a
classy evening. Tom Wolfe paid tribute to the art
of writing by the way he presented himself.
On such an evening you go home and write.
TOM WOLFE
In his six-button
cream colored vest
and his high forehead
hair falling part at the left
Tom Wolfe tailored facts
and fit them into a life
of their own. Smiling
he said, I am not the writer
who can't go home.
-Kathleen Gunton
Happy Birthday!
to the writer who founded what
we now call the New Journalism
Here's a quote on what he says he found--we
are richer for it. . .
"I found a great many pieces of puctuation and
typography lying around dormant when I came along--
and I must say I had a good time using them."
-Tom Wolfe
