The Right Stuff

Winner, National Book Awards 1980 for General Nonfiction - Hardcover

cover of The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
ISBN 9780312427566
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
photo of Tom Wolfe, 1980
Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe is one of the founders of the new journalism movement and author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff,The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full and I Am Charlotte Simmons. A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lives in New York City. More about this author >

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