Tom Wolfe

Also known as Thomas Kennerly, Jr. Wolfe, Thomas Kennerly "Tom" Wolfe, Jr.

American author and journalist (1930–2018)

Person · Open Library

Born: 1931
Died: 2018
Works: 196

Top works

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
Short Stories from the New Yorker
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition
Words of Ages
Bonfire of the Vanities

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Film & TV

Writing · Richmond, Virginia, USA

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. 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.

Known for

Radical Wolfe — Self (archive footage)2023
The Real Right Stuff — Self (archive footage)2020
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists — Self2018
Salinger — Self - Writer2013
Bill Cunningham New York — Self2011
Homevideo — Erik2011
Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens — Self - Writer (archive footage)2007
Tom Snyder's Electric Kool-Aid Talk Show — Self2006
Tales of the Rat Fink — Tom Wolfe's Car (voice)2006
The Real Men with 'The Right Stuff' — Self2003

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Group
Origin: Ireland
Active from: 1963

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Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,996
Total plays: 9,311

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,535x
Particle mesh Ewald: An N⋅log(N) method for Ewald sums in large systems
· 1993 · cited 29,200x
A Global Measure of Perceived Stress
· 1983 · cited 25,227x
The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 22,845x
A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,270x

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Quotes

“At this weak, pale, tabescent moment in the history of American literature, we need a battalion, a brigade, of Zolas to head out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, Hog-stomping, Baroque country of ours and reclaim it as literary property.”
“...Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs.”
“The demolition derby is, pure and simple, a form of gladiatorial combat for our times.”
“Everything was becoming allegorical, understood by the group mind, and especially this: "You're either on the bus … or off the bus."”
“He sounded like Jean-François Revel, a French socialist writer who talks about one of the great unexplained phenomena of modern astronomy: namely, that the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”
“A sect, incidentally, is a religion with no political power.”

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Key facts

Born: Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. , ( 1930-03-02 ) March 2, 1930, Richmond, Virginia , U.S.
Died: May 14, 2018 (2018-05-14) (aged 88), New York City, U.S.
Occupation: Journalist author
Education: Washington and Lee University ( BA ) Yale University ( PhD )
Period: 1959–2016
Literary movement: New Journalism
Notable works: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) The Right Stuff (1979) The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987)
Spouse: Sheila Berger ( married"}]]}'>m. 27 May 1978"}]]}'>1978 )

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.tomwolfe.com
Image: Wolfe at White House.jpg

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Commons category: Tom Wolfe
date of birth: 1930-03-02
date of death: 2018-05-14
birth name: Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr.
start of work period: 1965-00-00
name in native language: Tom Wolfe

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Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018) 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. Much of Wolfe's work is satirical and centers on the counterculture of the 1960s and issues related to class, social status, and the lifestyles of the economic and intellectual elites of New York City.

Wolfe began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, achieving national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (an account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and two collections of articles and essays, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. In 1979, he published the influential book The Right Stuff about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman.