Tom Wolfe
/ˌtɒm ˈwʊlf/
/ˌtɑːm ˈwʊlf/
- (1931-2018) a US writer, many of whose books are about US popular culture and social life. They include The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) and the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities (1988), A Man in Full (1998) and I am Charlotte Simmons (2004). In the 1960s, Wolfe was a leading figure in the 'New Journalism' movement, in which facts were written about in the style of fiction. He was a journalist for the Washington Post (1959-62) and The New York Herald-Tribune (1962-6).
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