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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018) was an American author and journalist widely known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing and journalism developed in the 1960s and 1970s that incorporated literary techniques.
May 10, 2024 · Tom Wolfe (born March 2, 1930, Richmond, Virginia, U.S.—died May 14, 2018, New York, New York) was an American novelist, journalist, and social commentator who was a leading critic of contemporary life and a proponent of New Journalism (the application of fiction-writing techniques to journalism).
May 15, 2018 · Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist and novelist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers, astronauts and Manhattan’s...
May 15, 2018 · NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Wolfe, the white-suited wizard of “New Journalism” who exuberantly chronicled American culture from the Merry Pranksters through the space race before turning his satiric wit to such novels as “The Bonfire of the Vanities” and “A Man in Full,” has died. He was 88.
May 15, 2018 · The writer Tom Wolfe, whose love for the bright caricatural gesture helped define American letters in the last half of the twentieth century, died on Monday. Photograph by Roger Kisby / Redux.
Thomas Wolfe (born Oct. 3, 1900, Asheville, N.C., U.S.—died Sept. 15, 1938, Baltimore, Md.) was an American writer best known for his first book, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and his other autobiographical novels.
May 15, 2018 · Tom Wolfe was a literary innovator who reimagined non-fiction. Wolfe, whose journalism was elevated by immersion, vivid characterisation and an array of irregular perspectives, has died...
May 15, 2018 · In a career that spanned more than half a century, Tom Wolfe wrote fiction and nonfiction best-sellers including The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities.
May 15, 2018 · The bursts of asterisks, the scattering of exclamation points and ellipses, the syncopated distribution of repeated phrases and capitalized words — one could spot a Tom Wolfe sentence a room away.
May 15, 2018 · Tom Wolfe, author of The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, has died aged 88, his agent has confirmed. The Right Stuff, about the first American astronauts, was...
