Tom Wolfe
Biography
American author and critic; one of the founders of the New Journalism movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He sometimes illustrated his work with pen-and-ink drawings, and was a contributing artist at Harper’s from 1978 to 1981. He exhibited his work at Manhattan galleries.
A collection of his illustrations were published as in “In Our Time” .
- Country
- United States
- Gender
- Male
- Education
- Washington and Lee University·Yale University·St. Christopher's School
- Place of birth
- Richmond· Virginia
- Birth date
- 02 March 1930
- Member of
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences·American Academy of Arts and Letters·Republican Party
- Nationality
- American
- National Humanities Medal
- St. Louis Literary Award
- Jefferson Lecture
- Wilbur Cross Medal
- Dos Passos Prize
- National Book Award
- Lives in New York City.
- Two children, Alexandra and Tommy.
- His daughter Alexandra was born in 1980.
- Graduated from Washington and Lee University.
- Counts Charles Dickens and mile Zola among his literary heroes.
- Their greeting is to clasp you on the inside of the thigh. Very,friendly.
- Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing concentric circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.
- The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
- What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again.
- Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman.
- One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
- Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.
- There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality then it is a quality of the spirit.
- There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous - and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed.
- The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.
Books
Tom Wolfe Announcement Banner
Tom James Wolfe
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
Tom James Wolfe
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Tom James Wolfe
In Our Time
Tom James Wolfe
Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom James Wolfe
Pumphouse Gang
Tom James Wolfe
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test
Tom James Wolfe
Radical Chic/Mau-Mauing the Flak Cat
Tom James Wolfe
Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter & Vine
Tom James Wolfe
Bonfire of the Van-V2
Tom James Wolfe
Purple Decades
Tom James Wolfe
Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-FL
Tom James Wolfe
Bonfire of the Van-V1
Tom James Wolfe
Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
Tom Wolfe
Out of Uniform
Tom Wolfe
Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe
Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe
Le règne du langage
Tom Wolfe
El reino del lenguaje
Tom Wolfe
The Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe
Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe
The Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe
Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe
The kingdom of speech
Tom Wolfe
Kingdom of Speech
Tom Wolfe
Back to Blood
Tom Wolfe
Back to Blood
Tom Wolfe
Back to Blood
Tom Wolfe
Bloody Miami
Tom Wolfe
Back to Blood
Tom Wolfe
Back to Blood
Tom Wolfe
Back to blood
Tom Wolfe
Back to Blood
Tom Wolfe
Back to blood
Tom Wolfe
Back to Blood
Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
Hooking Up
Tom Wolfe
Back to Blood
Tom Wolfe
Back to Blood
Tom Wolfe
Back to Blood
Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
Man in Full
Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe carves egg heads & other eggcellent things
Tom Wolfe
Carving bottlestoppers with Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe
Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Painted Word
Tom Wolfe
Out of uniform
Tom Wolfe
Moi , Charlotte Simmons
Tom Wolfe
Soy Charlotte Simmons
Tom Wolfe
Our True Stay
Tom Wolfe
Ėlektroprokhladitelʹnyĭ kislotnyĭ test
Tom Wolfe
I am Charlotte Simmons
Tom Wolfe
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