Tom Wolfe

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TOM WOLFE, 1988 (MoSchle)

Biographical details △

Born
Richmond, Virginia, United States, 1930

Died
New York City, United States, 2018

Places lived
Richmond, Virginia, United States; Springfield, Massachusetts; Washington, D.C.; New York City

Nationality
American

Publications
Novels, journalism, essays

Genres
Literary, new journalism

Writing language
English

Greatest lists △

Nonfiction

• The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968)

• The Right Stuff (1979)

Literary Fiction

• Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)

Related pages △

The Bonfire of the Vanities

A Man in Full

Works published in book form

The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, journalism, 1963

Including articles "Las Vegas (What?) Las Vegas (Can't hear you! Too noisy) Las Vegas!!!!", "The Fifth Beatle", "The First Tycoon of Teen", "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby", "The Last American Hero", and others

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, journalism, 1968

The Pump House Gang, essay and journalism collection, 1968

Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, essay collection, 1970

"These Radical Chic Evenings", "Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers"

The New Journalism, anthology edited by Wolfe and E.W. Johnson, 1973

The Painted Word Art, criticism, 1975

Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine essay and story collection, 1976

Including story "The Commercial"; articles "The Truest Sport: Jousting with Sam and Charlie", "The 'Me' Decade and the Third Great Awakening", "Pornoviolence", and others

The Right Stuff , nonfiction, 1979

In Our Time, essay and drawing collection, 1980

From Bauhaus to Our House, architecture criticism, 1981

The Purple Decades, nonfiction, 1982

The Bonfire of the Vanities, novel, 1987

Ambush at Fort Bragg, novella, 1996–1997

A Man in Full, novel, 1998

Hooking Up, novella and essay collection. 2000

Including novella Ambush at Fort Bragg; essays "Hooking Up", "Sorry, But Your Sould Just Died", "My Three Stooges", and others

I Am Charlotte Simmons, novel, 2004

Back to Blood, novel, 2012

The Kingdom of Speech, nonfiction, 2016