![]() ![]() What is it, I wondered, that makes a man willing to sit up on top of an enormous Roman candle such as a Redstone, Atlas, Titan or Saturn rocket, and wait for someone to light the fuse?" he wrote in his foreword for the 1983 edition of "The Right Stuff." "This book grew out of some ordinary curiosity. Wolfe's particular flair of using colorful prose and eccentric punctuation helped him in capturing the sweeping scope of his chosen subject - such as the early days of the Space Race between the United States and former Soviet Union, as he did in "The Right Stuff." ![]() Wolfe, whose other titles include the essay collection "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby" and the 1987 satirical novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities," gave rise to "New Journalism," a style of non-fiction that placed truth before fact and embraced a subjective perspective. "'The Right Stuff' was an inspiration to me and millions of others. "I'm saddened to hear of the passing of legendary author Tom Wolfe," wrote Jim Bridenstine, NASA Administrator, on Twitter on Tuesday. astronauts, has died at the age of 88.Ī celebrated journalist and best-selling author, Wolfe had been hospitalized for an infection when he died on Monday (May 14), according to the New York Times, citing his long- time literary agent. Tom Wolfe, whose 1979 book "The Right Stuff" chronicled the high-flying adventures of the first U.S. ![]()
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