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Tom Wolfe

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Tom Wolfe (Thomas Kennerly Wolfe, Jr.), 1931–, American journalist and novelist, b. Richmond, Va. Wolfe first gained fame for his studies of contemporary American culture in a colorful style known as New Journalism . His journalistic works include The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965), The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Radical Chic and Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers (1970), The Right Stuff (1975), From Bauhaus to Our House (1981), and the anthology Hooking Up (2000). He has also written novels: The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), a satiric look at a New York City torn by race and class; A Man in Full (1998), the saga of an Atlanta millionaire and a tellingly comic portrait of the New South; and I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004), a glimpse at randy contemporary collegians.

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Wolfe, Tom

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Wolfe, Tom ( Thomas Kennerley) (1931– ) US journalist and novelist. Wolfe established his reputation with essays on American counter-culture such as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid-Test (1968). His novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) is a sharply observed satire on the materialist ethos of the 1980s. Other works include A Man in Full (1998).

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