![]() ![]() "I think if I could have been a baseball star at Washington and Lee, I probably never would have touched a typewriter again," Wolfe told Chittum in 1999. ![]() As The New York Times’ Deirdre Carmody and William Grimes put it: “He did not make the cut.” A self-described "struggling middle reliever,” according to Matt Chittum at The Roanoke Times, Wolfe was talented enough that he earned a tryout with the New York Giants. ![]() While the English degree Wolfe earned from Washington and Lee University in 1951 would arguably serve him further in the long run, as an undergraduate he dreamed about becoming a baseball star. Here are five things to know about the late author:īefore starting his career as a journalist, he aspired to play Major League Baseball His novelistic nonfiction particularly helped expose the pluralism and peculiarities of American culture and usher in a new writing style that he called New Journalism. Wolfe leaves behind a literary legacy that details the lives of diverse milieus, from Cuban immigrants to New York City’s elite to the hippie counterculture. ![]() Tom Wolfe, the 88-year-old journalist and best-selling author known for his immersive style, contrarian attitude and hallmark white suits, died Monday in a New York City hospital. ![]()
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