Tom Wolfe earns lifetime achievement honor from National Book Award Foundation -- The National Book Award Foundation announced today that it will honor author and journalist Tom Wolfe with its 2010 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Mr. Wolfe will receive the medal as part of the National Book Award ceremony on November 17, 2010.
Tom Wolfe is the author of several novels and non-fiction books including: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965); The Bonfire of the Vanities (1997); The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968); and The Right Stuff (1979). The Right Stuff won the National Book Award for general non-fiction. He is often credited with being one of the founders of the "New Journalism" literary movement which frequently involves dramatic, experimental techniques in reporting and often an acknowledged subjective viewpoint.
Tom Wolfe will be the 20th winner of the Medal for Distingished Contribution to American Letters. Previous winners include: Joan Didion, Maxine Hong Kingston, Norman Mailer, Toni Morrison, John Updike, and Gore Vidal.
The finalists in all categories of the 2010 National Book Award will be announced at the childhood home of Southern writer, Flannery O'Connor, in Savannah, Georgia on October 13th. The announcement will be made there by author, Pat Conroy.
The 61st National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner wil be held November 17th at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City and will be emceed by writer and actor Andy Borowitz.
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