Tom Wolfe

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Tom Wolfe

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

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Wolfe was educated at Washington and Lee Universities and also at Yale, where he received a PhD in American studies.

Tom Wolfe spent his early days as a Washington Post beat reporter, where his free-association, onomatopoetic style would later become the trademark of New Journalism. In books such as The Electric Koolaid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe delves into the inner workings of the mind, writing about the unconscious decisions people make in their lives. His attention to eccentricities of human behavior and language and to questions of social status are considered unparalleled in the American literary canon.


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

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Average rating: 3.77 · 111,573 ratings · 6,056 reviews · 37 distinct works · Similar authors
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid ...
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 32,291 ratings — published 1968 — 33 editions
The Bonfire of the Vanities
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 29,179 ratings — published 1987 — 65 editions
The Right Stuff
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 15,885 ratings — published 1979 — 35 editions
I am Charlotte Simmons
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 14,465 ratings — published 2004 — 36 editions
A Man in Full
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 7,995 ratings — published 1998 — 42 editions
Back to Blood
3.18 of 5 stars 3.18 avg rating — 2,793 ratings — published 2012 — 24 editions
The Painted Word
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 1,576 ratings — published 1975 — 16 editions
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine...
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 1,546 ratings — published 1965 — 18 editions
From Bauhaus to Our House
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 1,395 ratings — published 1981 — 23 editions
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing t...
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3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 1,189 ratings — published 1970 — 21 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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