Tom Wolfe

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born

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

gender

male

website

http://www.tomwolfe.com/

genre

Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Politics

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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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Books by Tom Wolfe

Average rating: 3.71 · 69,994 ratings · 4,585 reviews · 67 distinct works

	The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test 3.85 avg rating — 19,495 ratings — published 1967 — 32 editions	My rating:
	The Bonfire of the Vanities 3.66 avg rating — 19,081 ratings — published 1987 — 63 editions	My rating:
	The Right Stuff 4.17 avg rating — 8,523 ratings — published 1975 — 29 editions	My rating:
	I am Charlotte Simmons 3.28 avg rating — 11,142 ratings — published 2003 — 33 editions	My rating:
	A Man in Full 3.65 avg rating — 5,627 ratings — published 1998 — 39 editions	My rating:
	The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby 3.64 avg rating — 1,110 ratings — published 1965 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Painted Word 3.79 avg rating — 936 ratings — published 1975 — 16 editions	My rating:
	From Bauhaus to Our House 3.65 avg rating — 980 ratings — published 1981 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe, Egoscue 3.67 avg rating — 833 ratings — published 1970 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Hooking Up 3.18 avg rating — 836 ratings — published 1989 — 17 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Tom Wolfe

“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
― Tom Wolfe

tags: atheism , philosophy

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“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

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“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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