![]() ![]() ![]() He took a job with the New York Herald-Tribune in 1962 and was quickly promoted to its Sunday supplement, New York. ![]() Two years later, Wolfe moved to the Washington Post, where for six months in 1960 he served as Latin American correspondent, winning the Washington Newspaper Guild’s foreign news prize for his coverage of Cuba. In 1956 he took a job as a city reporter for the Springfield Union in Massachusetts. After graduating from Washington and Lee with honors in 1951, Wolfe went on to receive a doctorate in American studies at Yale University. His skills on the baseball field in college also earned him a tryout with the New York Giants at the age of 21, although he was cut after three days of spring training. Wolfe attended Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., where he studied English and American studies and co-founded the literary quarterly Shenandoah, which is still in production. was born on Main Richmond, Va., to parents Thomas and Helen (Hughes). ![]()
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