This author proclaimed that American novels needed to return to social realism in a 1989 article he wrote for Harper's Magazine, "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast."
This author profiled NASCAR driver Junior Johnson in his essay "The Last American Hero." In 2000, this author responded to criticism from Norman Mailer, John Irving, and John Updike by writing an essay calling them the "three stooges." This author proclaimed that American novels needed to return to social realism in a 1989 article he wrote for Harper's Magazine, "Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast." His most recent novel concerns Nestor Camacho, a policeman who arrests a Cuban refugee yards from American soil, causing a crisis in Miami. This author wrote a collection named for an essay about Ed Roth and California's custom car culture, as well as the novel Back to Blood. He pioneered "New Journalism" in books such as The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby. For 10 points, name this American author of A Man in Full and The Bonfire of the Vanities.
This author profiled NASCAR driver Junior Johnson in his essay "The Last American Hero."
Tom Wolfe