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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018) [a] 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, who died Tuesday in New York at the age of 87, leaves behind him an impressive legacy of work: essays, criticism, longform reporting, and fiction. Here are five essential books you...
1 day ago · In their 2018 obituary of Wolfe for The New York Times, Deirdre Carmody and William Grimes noted that for all that Wolfe missed in his reporting or his fiction or his criticism, he overheard an ...
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 · Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist and novelist whose technicolor, wildly punctuated prose brought to life the worlds of California surfers, car customizers, astronauts and...
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...
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...
May 15, 2018 · Best-selling author Tom Wolfe, one of the pioneers of what came to be called "the new journalism," died at a hospital in New York.
