Tom Wolfe
Novelist, Author
1931 –
Who is Tom Wolfe?
Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr. is an American author and journalist, best known for his association and influence over the New Journalism literary movement in which literary techniques are used in objective, even-handed journalism. Beginning his career as a reporter he soon became one of the most culturally significant figures of the sixties after the publication of books such as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, a highly experimental account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and his collections of articles and essays, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. His first novel entitled The Bonfire of the Vanities, released in 1987, was met with critical acclaim and was a great commercial success.
He is also known, in recent years, for his spats and public disputes with other writers, including John Updike, Norman Mailer, and John Irving.
Famous Quotes:
- Carol Doda's Breasts are up there the way one imagines Electra's should have been, two incredible mammiform protrusions, no mere pliable mass of feminine tissues and fats there but living arterial sculpture––viscera spigot––great blown-up aureate morning glories.
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- Born
- Mar 2, 1931
Richmond - Also known as
- Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr.
- Thomas Kennerly Wolfe
- Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.
- Parents
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Atheism
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- Washington and Lee University
- St. Christopher's School, Richmond
( - 1949)
- Lived in
- Virginia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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