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(Tom Wolfe was born in 1931. He wrote for The Washington Post and The New York Herald Tribune and is credited with the creation of 'New Journalism'. Between 1984 and 1985 Wolfe wrote his first novel The Bonfire of the Vanities in serial form for Rolling Stone magazine. The novel was published in 1987. It was number one of the New York Times bestseller list for two months and remained on the list for more than a year. He is the author of sixteen books, among them such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and I Am Charlotte Simmons.
Genres: General Fiction
Novels
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
A Man in Full (1998)
I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004)
Back to Blood (2012)
A Man in Full (1998)
I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004)
Back to Blood (2012)
Collections
Non fiction
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
The Pump House Gang (1968)
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970)
The New Journalism (1973) (with Edward Warren Johnson)
The Painted Word (1976)
Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine (1977)
The Right Stuff (1979)
In Our Time (1980)
From Bauhaus to Our House (1981)
The Purple Decades (1982)
The Kingdom of Speech (2016)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)
The Pump House Gang (1968)
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970)
The New Journalism (1973) (with Edward Warren Johnson)
The Painted Word (1976)
Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine (1977)
The Right Stuff (1979)
In Our Time (1980)
From Bauhaus to Our House (1981)
The Purple Decades (1982)
The Kingdom of Speech (2016)
Awards
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Tom Wolfe recommends
No Way to Treat a First Lady (2002)
Christopher Buckley
"Fifty years ago, the three funniest writers in the english language were named Shaw, Mencken and Muggeridge. Today they're named Thompson, O'Rourke and Christopher Buckley."
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