Tom Wolfe





Tom Wolfe

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January 01, 1931 in Richmond, Virginia, The United States

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Wolfe was educated at Washington and Lee Universities and also at Yale, where he received a PhD in American studies. Moving to New York in 1962, he wrote for the Washington Post and the New York Herald Tribune.
His first collection, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby appeared in 1965, and along with Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, published the same year, heralded the arrival of the 'New Journalism', a style which, in keeping with the times, blurred the lines between reality and fiction.

He is one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

Tom Wolfe is also famous for coining and defining the term fiction-absolute .

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Average rating: 3.71 · 69,994 ratings · 4,585 reviews · 67 distinct works
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid ...
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 19,495 ratings — published 1967 — 32 editions
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 19,081 ratings — published 1987 — 63 editions
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The Right Stuff
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 8,523 ratings — published 1975 — 29 editions
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I am Charlotte Simmons
3.28 of 5 stars 3.28 avg rating — 11,142 ratings — published 2003 — 33 editions
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A Man in Full
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 5,627 ratings — published 1998 — 39 editions
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The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine...
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 1,110 ratings — published 1965 — 16 editions
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The Painted Word
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 936 ratings — published 1975 — 16 editions
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From Bauhaus to Our House
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 980 ratings — published 1981 — 22 editions
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Hooking Up
3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 836 ratings — published 1989 — 17 editions
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“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
Tom Wolfe

“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.”
Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

“Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.”
Tom Wolfe

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