Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe

(1930–2018) novelist United States

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Tom Wolfe (1930–2018) was a United States novelist, known for The Bonfire of the Vanities|The Right Stuff|A Man in Full|Back to Blood|Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers|The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

About Tom Wolfe

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. 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 is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City.

Known for:

The Bonfire of the Vanities|The Right Stuff|A Man in Full|Back to Blood|Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers|The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Notable works:

The Bonfire of the Vanities

Awards:

National Book Award|National Humanities Medal|Dos Passos Prize|National Book Award for Nonfiction|Jefferson Lecture|St. Louis Literary Award|Wilbur Cross Medal|Carl Sandburg Literary Award|Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award

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