Tom Wolfe
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Wolfe began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, achieving national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as ''The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'' (an account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and two collections of articles and essays, ''The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby'' and ''Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers''. In 1979, he published the influential book ''The Right Stuff'' about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman.
His first novel, ''The Bonfire of the Vanities'', published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim and also became a commercial success. Its adaptation as a motion picture of the same name, directed by Brian De Palma, was a critical and commercial failure. Provided by Wikipedia
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