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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018) [a] was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques. Much of Wolfe's work was satirical and centred on the counterculture of the ...
May 10, 2024 · Tom Wolfe (born March 2, 1930, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.—died May 14, 2018, New York, New York) was an American novelist, journalist, and social commentator who was a leading critic of contemporary life and a proponent of New Journalism (the application of fiction-writing techniques to journalism).
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May 15, 2018 · Tom Wolfe was a literary legend of the 20th Century and frequent Esquire contributor, a writer whose style wasn't limited to his trademark suits. He was a pioneer of New Journalism, which brought ...
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- The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby (1965) The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby, an essay collection and Wolfe's first book, documents the emergence of a new American aesthetic in the 1960s.
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) In The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, a work of nonfiction, Wolfe writes about the drug-fuelled world of Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters.
- The Right Stuff (1979) Wolfe had a knack for getting to the heart of an American obsession, and while on a Rolling Stone assignment in the 1970s, he turned his attention to space exploration.
- The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) After publishing several successful books of nonfiction, Wolfe was repeatedly asked why he hadn't written a novel yet.
May 15, 2018 · May 15, 2018. The writer Tom Wolfe, whose love for the bright caricatural gesture helped define American letters in the last half of the twentieth century, died on Monday. Photograph by Roger ...
May 15, 2018 · Tom Wolfe was a literary innovator who reimagined non-fiction. Wolfe, whose journalism was elevated by immersion, vivid characterisation and an array of irregular perspectives, has died aged 88 ...
May 15, 2018 · "When Tom Wolfe's voice broke into the world of nonfiction, it was a time when a lot of writers, and a lot of artists in general, were turning inward," says Lev Grossman, book critic for Time ...
