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March 2, 2013

March 2, 1931

Tom Wolfe, born March 2, 1931, is a celebrated American novelist. One of  Wolfe's fictional worlds includes the fictional Nobel Laureate Dr.Victor Ransome Starling, The research conducted by this  scientist involved removing the amygdala from the brains of cats. 

The title of one of the books Wolfe made up to decorate his pretend world is "Descartes, Darwin, and the Mind-Body Problem." That sounds like an interesting book, which is more than I can say about Wolfe's own output. Nothing I have read about this author makes me want to pick up one of his novels. So I cannot really say if what one reviewer wrote about Wolfe, is true: that he was "to paraphrase what Balzac called himself-the very secretary of American society in the 21st century."
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