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Tom Wolfe (1) [1930–2018]

This page covers the author of The Bonfire of the Vanities.

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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. was born in Richmond, Virginia on March 2, 1930. He received bachelor's degree in English from Washington and Lee University in 1951 and a Ph.D in American studies from Yale University in 1957. He started his journalism career as a general-assignment reporter at The Springfield Union. While he was working for The Washington Post, he was assigned to cover Latin America and won the Washington Newspaper Guild's foreign news prize for a series on Cuba in 1961. In 1962, he became a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune and a staff writer for New York magazine. His work also appeared in Harper's and Esquire. His first book, a collection of articles about the flamboyant Sixties written for New York and Esquire entitled The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, was published in 1968. His other collections included Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and Hooking Up. His non-fiction works included The Pump House Gang; The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; The Painted Word; Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine; In Our Time; and From Bauhaus to Our House. The Right Stuff won the American Book Award for nonfiction, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Harold Vursell Award for prose style, and the Columbia Journalism Award. It was adapted into a film in 1983. His fiction books included The Bonfire of the Vanities, Ambush at Fort Bragg, A Man in Full, The Kingdom of Speech, I Am Charlotte Simmons, and Back to Blood. He was also a contributing artist at Harper's from 1978 to 1981. Many of his illustrations were collected in In Our Time. He died on May 14, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Bonfire of the Vanities… (more)
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Works by Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities 8,646 copies, 129 reviews
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 6,118 copies, 72 reviews
The Right Stuff 4,443 copies, 66 reviews
A Man in Full 4,395 copies, 45 reviews
I Am Charlotte Simmons 3,800 copies, 80 reviews
From Bauhaus to Our House 1,293 copies, 16 reviews
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby 1,021 copies, 12 reviews
Hooking Up 1,006 copies, 15 reviews
Back to Blood 918 copies, 33 reviews
The Painted Word (Illustrator, some editions) 901 copies, 18 reviews
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers 802 copies, 11 reviews
The Pump House Gang 490 copies, 5 reviews
The New Journalism (Editor; Contributor) 322 copies, 2 reviews
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (Illustrator, some editions) 319 copies, 3 reviews
The Kingdom of Speech 264 copies, 12 reviews
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Also by Tom Wolfe
The Best American Essays of the Century (Contributor) 736 copies, 4 reviews
Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson (Contributor) 574 copies, 9 reviews
Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959-1969, Volume 1 (Contributor) 308 copies, 3 reviews
The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books (Contributor) 293 copies, 12 reviews
The Best of Modern Humor (Contributor) 283 copies, 2 reviews
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Contributor) 265 copies, 4 reviews
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to… (Contributor) 233 copies, 3 reviews
Three Novels : Mildred Pierce; Double Indemnity; The Postman Always Rings… (Introduction, some editions) 208 copies, 6 reviews
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism (Contributor) 205 copies, 1 review
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 2: American Journalism 1963-1973 (Contributor) 201 copies
Russell Baker's Book of American Humor (Contributor) 195 copies
The Best American Sports Writing of the Century (Contributor) 187 copies, 1 review
Photographs (Introduction) 170 copies, 2 reviews
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (Contributor) 126 copies, 1 review
The Best American Essays 1990 (Contributor) 114 copies
Remembering Jack: Intimate and Unseen Photographs of the Kennedys (Afterword) 110 copies, 1 review
On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures (Contributor) 106 copies, 1 review
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (Contributor) 91 copies
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (Contributor) 88 copies
The Best American Essays 1987 (Contributor) 83 copies
Going Downtown: The War Against Hanoi and Washington (Foreword, some editions) 73 copies, 2 reviews
New York Stories: Landmark Writing from Four Decades of New York Magazine (Foreword) 65 copies, 1 review
Malaparte: A House Like Me (Foreword) 48 copies, 1 review
The Bonfire of the Vanities [1990 film] 39 copies, 1 review
Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy Classic Rock & Pop Writing from Elvis to Oasis (Contributor) 31 copies, 2 reviews
Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (Contributor) 28 copies, 2 reviews
The Best American Magazine Writing 2000 (Contributor) 26 copies
Color Photographs 16 copies
I'm a Little Special (Contributor) 15 copies
Beyond the Boom: New Voices on American Life, Culture, and Politics (Introduction) 14 copies
Sky High: Stories of Survival from Air to Space (Contributor) 13 copies
Bill Cunningham New York [2010 film] (Actor) 8 copies
À la Mode: On the Social Psychology of Fashion (Introduction, some editions) 8 copies
The New York Spy A Most Personal Guide to the Empire City (Contributor) 8 copies
Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel (Contributor) 7 copies
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Canonical name
Wolfe, Tom
Legal name
Wolfe, Thomas Kennerly, Jr.
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Date of birth
1930-03-02
Date of death
2018-05-14
Burial location
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Place of death
New York, New York, USA
Cause of death
antibiotic-resistant infection
Places of residence
Richmond, Virginia, USA
New York, New York, USA
Education
St. Christopher's School
Washington and Lee University (BA | English | 1951)
Yale University (PhD | American Studies | 1957)
Occupations
baseball player
editor
reporter
novelist
essayist
Relationships
Agents
Lynn Nesbit (Janklow and Nesbit)
Organizations
Springfield Union
The Washington Post
New York Herald Tribune
Esquire
New Journalism
Awards and honors
Jefferson Lecture (2006)
Washington Newspaper Guild Award ( [1961])
Society of Magazine Writers Award for Excellence (1970)
National Humanities Medal (2001)
Frank Luther Mott Research Award (1973)
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