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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.
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).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
May 15, 2018 · Tom Wolfe, who died Tuesday in New York at the age of 87, leaves behind him an impressive legacy of work: essays, criticism, longform reporting, and fiction. Here are five essential books you ...
- Senior Culture Editor
- 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.
- The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe.
- The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Tom Wolfe.
- The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe.
- I Am Charlotte Simmons Tom Wolfe.
May 15, 2018 · NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of “New Journalism” who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to such novels as “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and “A Man in Full,” has died. He was 88.
May 15, 2018 · Tom Wolfe, who died Monday, was—as even those of us who did not share his politics and often deplored his taste and even doubted the fashion wisdom of all the white suits have to admit—one of the...
