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Tom Wolfe


Born
in Richmond, Virginia, The United States
March 02, 1931

Died
May 14, 2018

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Genre
Nonfiction, Literature & Fiction, Contemporary


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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The Bonfire of the Vanities
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The Right Stuff
4.23 avg rating — 56,154 ratings — published 1979 — 134 editions
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I Am Charlotte Simmons
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A Man in Full
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Back to Blood
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The Painted Word
3.85 avg rating — 7,018 ratings — published 1975 — 51 editions
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From Bauhaus to Our House
3.77 avg rating — 4,270 ratings — published 1981 — 69 editions
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“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe
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“A cult is a religion with no political power.”
― Tom Wolfe
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“One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.”
― Tom Wolfe
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April 2026 New School Classics Poll

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, 1979, 288 pages
 
  42 votes, 29.2%

 
  30 votes, 20.8%

The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, 1942, 455 pages
 
  19 votes, 13.2%

Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham, 1930, 308 pages
 
  17 votes, 11.8%

The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe, 1979, 369 pages
 
  12 votes, 8.3%

My Brother Michael by Mary Stewart, 1959, 400 pages
 
  12 votes, 8.3%

In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes, 1947, 250 pages
 
  12 votes, 8.3%

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