[DOC] [TLE] The Word According to Tom Wolfe - Transcript Vids [PAR] Dec 18, 2012... unsuccessfully for the pitching staff of the then New York Giants, ... author of  among many ... [DOC] [TLE] Silver by Walter De La Mare | The Writer's Almanac with Garrison ... [PAR] Mar 2, 2003 ... The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor: 'Silver' by Walter De La Mare, ... He 
once said, "You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as ... At the age 
of 21, Wolfe tried out as a pitcher for the old New York Giants. ... His first novel, 
The Bonfire of the Vanities, was written in serial form and came out... [DOC] [TLE] Tom Wolfe - Wikipedia [PAR] Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. (born March 2, 1931) is an American author 
and journalist, ... His first novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, 
was met with ... In 1952 he earned a tryout with the New York Giants but was cut 
after three ..... slated to be killed by a giant boulder, but that ending was edited 
out. [DOC] [TLE] Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge - Hoover Institution [PAR] Washington and Lee in 1951, tried out, alas, unsuccessfully for the pitching staff 
of the then New York Giants, then received a Doctorate in American Studies from 
Yale ... He is the author of among many other works ... Back to Blood, he once 
proclaimed that the new ... course, "Bonfire of the Vanities" is New York in the '
80s. [DOC] [TLE] Old School - People [PAR] Nov 29, 2004 ... ... gave us The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities and even popularized 
the ... when author Tom Wolfe fell into a deep depression a few months after his 
... And he's just produced one of the most authentic works about young ... Adds 
the man who tried out as a pitcher with the then-New York Giants in... [DOC] [TLE] Tom Wolfe on His New Novel Back to Blood -- Vulture [PAR] Oct 21, 2012 ... Forty-two years after Radical Chic and 25 since Bonfire, Tom ... Photo: Tina 
Barney/New York Magazine ... Dominion over palm and pinewords drawn out, 
then lopped off .... In the documentary, the writer who chalks up his success to ... 
Published in 1987, The Bonfire of the Vanities bore all the Wolfe... [DOC] [TLE] The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe  Reviews, Discussion ... [PAR] The Bonfire of the Vanities has 52876 ratings and 1986 reviews. ... On the one 
hand, Wolfe is a talented writer, capable of creating vivid, visceral scenes. ..... The 
story follows McCoy trying to cover up the accident while the Bronx detec This ... 
William Lyons Phelps, Samuel Flagg Bemis, and the other three name giants of 
of... [DOC] [TLE] Introduction - Wiley Online Library [PAR] His 1988 novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, seemed ... Most of all, Tom wanted to 
be a big league pitcher. At one point I went to a tryout camp for the New. York 
Giants, he later recalled.2 At that point in his life, at ... We have tried to shut out 
the intellectual part .... is found only by the theorist who is the author of all things. [DOC] [TLE] FILM - Up 'Jacob's Ladder' And Into the Hell Of a Veteran's Psyche ... [PAR] Oct 28, 1990 ... TRAILERS FOR THE NEW FILM "Jacob's Ladder" suggest a horror flick set ... 
New York Times ... its author, Bruce Joel Rubin, owes much of his reputation to "
Ghost," ... screen adaptation of Tom Wolfe's novel "The Bonfire of the Vanities. ... 
Both Mr. Robbins and Miss Pena auditioned early, and while neither... [DOC] [TLE] THE PRODUCERS - NYTimes.com - The New York Times [PAR] Oct 22, 1989 ... ''We're an inch away,'' he says cheerfully as the ad is whisked out ... in progress 
includes Tom Wolfe's ''The Bonfire of the Vanities. ... Regarded as one of the most 
brilliant men in Hollywood

Question: This "Bonfire Of The Vanities" author once tried out as a pitcher for the New York Giants
Answer: Tom Wolfe